diff --git a/perl.changes b/perl.changes
index 09fa584..eaf2639 100644
--- a/perl.changes
+++ b/perl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar 15 09:07:45 CET 2008 - coolo@suse.de
+
+- pod/perldiag.pod is needed in the base distribution
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 11 20:31:18 CET 2008 - coolo@suse.de
 
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index c6b124d..48d2332 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Name:           perl
 Url:            http://www.perl.org/
 BuildRequires:  db-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel
 Version:        5.10.0
-Release:        18
+Release:        19
 Summary:        The Perl interpreter
 License:        Artistic License; GPL v2 or later
 Group:          Development/Languages/Perl
@@ -277,6 +277,15 @@ cat << EOF > perl-base-filelist
 /usr/lib/perl5/%version/*-linux-thread-multi*/re.pm
 EOF
 cat perl-base-filelist | sed -e 's/^/%exclude /g' > perl-base-excludes
+: > perl-pod-excludes
+for i in $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/perl5/*/pod/*; do
+  echo "%exclude $i" >> perl-pod-excludes
+done
+grep -v perldiag.pod perl-pod-excludes > perl-pod-excludes.new
+mv perl-pod-excludes.new perl-pod-excludes
+sed -i -e "s,$RPM_BUILD_ROOT,," perl-pod-excludes
+# can %files take two file lists?
+cat perl-pod-excludes >> perl-base-excludes
 #%post
 #%{fillup_only -an suseconfig}
 
@@ -293,12 +302,11 @@ cat perl-base-filelist | sed -e 's/^/%exclude /g' > perl-base-excludes
 /usr/bin/suidperl
 %doc /usr/share/man/man1/perl.1.gz
 
-%files -f perl-base-excludes
+%files -f perl-base-excludes 
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %exclude /usr/bin/perl
 %exclude /usr/bin/perl%version
 %exclude /usr/bin/suidperl
-%exclude /usr/lib/perl5/*/pod
 %exclude /usr/lib/perl5/*/Unicode/*/*.txt
 %exclude /usr/lib/perl5/*/unicore/*.txt
 /usr/bin/*
@@ -311,6 +319,7 @@ cat perl-base-filelist | sed -e 's/^/%exclude /g' > perl-base-excludes
 %files doc
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %exclude /usr/share/man/man1/perl.1.gz
+%exclude /usr/lib/perl5/*/pod/perldiag.pod
 %doc /usr/share/man/man1/*
 %doc /usr/share/man/man3/*
 %doc /usr/lib/perl5/*/pod
@@ -318,6 +327,8 @@ cat perl-base-filelist | sed -e 's/^/%exclude /g' > perl-base-excludes
 %doc /usr/lib/perl5/*/unicore/*.txt
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 15 2008 coolo@suse.de
+- pod/perldiag.pod is needed in the base distribution
 * Tue Mar 11 2008 coolo@suse.de
 - after several discussions on how to decrease size of perl
   distribution: split out perl-doc