diff --git a/fix-backports-usage.patch b/fix-backports-usage.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a181aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-backports-usage.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -uNr apache-libcloud-2.0.0.orig/libcloud/utils/py3.py apache-libcloud-2.0.0/libcloud/utils/py3.py
+--- apache-libcloud-2.0.0.orig/libcloud/utils/py3.py	2017-09-30 15:18:35.359491824 +0200
++++ apache-libcloud-2.0.0/libcloud/utils/py3.py	2017-09-30 15:19:00.418868653 +0200
+@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
+ if sys.version_info >= (3, 2) and sys.version_info < (3, 3):
+     PY32 = True
+ 
+-if PY2_pre_279 or PY3_pre_32:
++if PY2 or PY3_pre_32:
+     try:
+         from backports.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname, CertificateError  # NOQA
+     except ImportError:
diff --git a/python-apache-libcloud.changes b/python-apache-libcloud.changes
index 53c6745..ad53d20 100644
--- a/python-apache-libcloud.changes
+++ b/python-apache-libcloud.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Sep 30 13:29:33 UTC 2017 - mc@suse.com
+
+- fix build on SLE12 by using python-backports
+- reduce warnings
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May 16 16:37:05 UTC 2017 - jmatejek@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-apache-libcloud.spec b/python-apache-libcloud.spec
index 0c14dec..ca094e6 100644
--- a/python-apache-libcloud.spec
+++ b/python-apache-libcloud.spec
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 #nospeccleaner
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
@@ -26,10 +27,12 @@ License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          System/Monitoring
 Url:            https://libcloud.apache.org
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/a/apache-libcloud/apache-libcloud-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:         fix-backports-usage.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module lxml}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module xml}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
+BuildRequires:  python-backports.ssl_match_hostname
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1210
 BuildRequires:  systemd
@@ -46,13 +49,14 @@ differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n apache-libcloud-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %python_build
 
 %install
 %python_install
-%fdupes %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/libcloud/test/
+%fdupes %{buildroot}%{_prefix}
 
 %files %{python_files}
 %defattr(-,root,root)