diff --git a/python-docutils.changes b/python-docutils.changes
index e801b43..92fa4df 100644
--- a/python-docutils.changes
+++ b/python-docutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 27 14:07:19 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Fix building python 3 package on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 24 09:02:35 UTC 2012 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/python3-docutils.changes b/python3-docutils.changes
index a49df8e..4af1a2a 100644
--- a/python3-docutils.changes
+++ b/python3-docutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 27 14:07:19 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
+
+- Fix building python 3 package on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 23 12:00:49 UTC 2012 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python3-docutils.spec b/python3-docutils.spec
index 5aba5c6..d70264b 100644
--- a/python3-docutils.spec
+++ b/python3-docutils.spec
@@ -30,11 +30,16 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3-xml
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Requires:       python3-xml
-Requires:       python3 >= %{py3_ver}
-BuildArch:      noarch
 %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1140
 %{!?python3_sitelib: %global python3_sitelib %(python3 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
+%{!?py3_ver: %global py3_ver %(python3 -c "import sys; version=str(sys.version_info[0]) + '.' + str(sys.version_info[1]); print(version)" 2>/dev/null || echo PYTHON-NOT-FOUND)}
+%ifarch x86_64
+# to allow ownership of noarch python directories
+BuildRequires:  python3-32bit 
 %endif
+%endif
+BuildArch:      noarch
+Requires:       python3 >= %{py3_ver}
 
 %description
 Docutils is a modular system for processing documentation into useful formats,
@@ -57,5 +62,8 @@ for i in %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/rst*; do mv "$i" "${i/.py}-python%{py3_ver}"; do
 %doc COPYING.txt FAQ.txt HISTORY.txt README.txt THANKS.txt BUGS.txt docs/* licenses
 %{_bindir}/rst*-python%{py3_ver}
 %{python3_sitelib}/*
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1140
+%dir %{python3_sitelib}
+%endif
 
 %changelog