diff --git a/python-sip.changes b/python-sip.changes
index 37b7914..850c3a7 100644
--- a/python-sip.changes
+++ b/python-sip.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 29 18:41:49 UTC 2011 - termim@gmail.com
+
+- Add python-sip-bin package to avoid conflicts between python2 
+  and python3 versions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 16 00:07:23 UTC 2011 - termim@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-sip.spec b/python-sip.spec
index 08e99b1..8ca8e24 100644
--- a/python-sip.spec
+++ b/python-sip.spec
@@ -43,9 +43,8 @@ for any C or C++ library.
 License:        GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0 or SIP
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 Summary:        SIP tool to create python bindings
-Provides:       python-sip:/usr/bin/sip
 Requires:       %name = %version
-Requires:       c++_compiler python-devel
+Requires:       c++_compiler python-devel python-sip-bin
 
 %description devel
 SIP is a tool that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C
@@ -56,6 +55,21 @@ for any C or C++ library.
 This package contains all the developer tools you need to create your 
 own sip bindings.
 
+
+%package bin
+License:        GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0 or SIP
+Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
+Summary:        SIP tool to create python bindings
+Provides:       python-sip:/usr/bin/sip
+
+%description bin
+SIP is a tool that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C
+and C++ libraries. It was originally developed to create PyQt, the
+Python bindings for the Qt toolkit, but can be used to create bindings
+for any C or C++ library.
+
+This package contains the sip executable
+
 %prep
 %setup -q -n sip-%{rversion}
 %patch0
@@ -81,10 +95,13 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc README
 %{py_sitedir}/sip.so
 
+%files bin
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+/usr/bin/sip
+
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc NEWS LICENSE doc
-/usr/bin/sip
 %{py_incdir}/sip.h
 %{py_sitedir}/sipconfig.py
 %{py_sitedir}/sipdistutils.py
diff --git a/python3-sip.changes b/python3-sip.changes
index 50ae20e..3cacfe4 100644
--- a/python3-sip.changes
+++ b/python3-sip.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug 29 18:41:49 UTC 2011 - termim@gmail.com
+
+- Add python-sip-bin package to avoid conflicts between python2 
+  and python3 versions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 16 00:07:23 UTC 2011 - termim@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python3-sip.spec b/python3-sip.spec
index 411e549..993ecb1 100644
--- a/python3-sip.spec
+++ b/python3-sip.spec
@@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ Patch0:         disable-rpaths.diff
 Patch1:         build-compare.diff
 BuildRequires:  c++_compiler
 BuildRequires:  python3 python3-devel
-Requires:       python3 python3-base
-PreReq:         python3 python3-base
+Requires:       python3
+PreReq:         python3
+
+%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1140
+Requires:       python3-base
+PreReq:         python3-base
+%endif
 
 %global py3_incdir  %(python3 -c "import distutils.sysconfig; print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc())" 2>/dev/null || echo PYTHON-NOT-FOUND)
 
@@ -49,7 +54,7 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 Summary:        SIP tool to create python bindings
 Provides:       python3-sip:/usr/bin/sip
 Requires:       %name = %version
-Requires:       c++_compiler python3-devel
+Requires:       c++_compiler python3-devel python-sip-bin
 
 %description devel
 SIP is a tool that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C
@@ -76,6 +81,8 @@ make %{?jobs:-j %jobs}
 make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/sip
 sed -i 's/"doc" directory/"doc" directory of package %{name}-devel/' README
+# sip executable is provided by python-sip-bin to avoid conflicts
+rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/sip
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -88,7 +95,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %doc NEWS LICENSE doc
-/usr/bin/sip
 %{py3_incdir}/sip.h
 %{python3_sitearch}/sipconfig.py
 %{python3_sitearch}/sipdistutils.py