diff --git a/distutils.cfg b/distutils.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 14839d4..0000000
--- a/distutils.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[build_py]
-optimize=0
-
-[install]
-prefix=/usr/local
-optimize=0
diff --git a/python-base.changes b/python-base.changes
index bd9fb1b..e809b07 100644
--- a/python-base.changes
+++ b/python-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 15 10:39:15 UTC 2012 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- buildrequire explicitly netcfg for the test suite
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct  8 14:33:08 UTC 2012 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- remove distutils.cfg (bnc#658604)
+  * this changes default prefix for distutils to /usr
+  * see ML for details:
+http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2012-09/msg00254.html
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug  3 18:43:32 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/python-base.spec b/python-base.spec
index d2c5bc1..b707221 100644
--- a/python-base.spec
+++ b/python-base.spec
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Source0:        %{tarname}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        macros.python
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
 Source3:        README.SUSE
-Source4:        distutils.cfg
 Source5:        _local.pth
 # COMMON-PATCH-BEGIN
 Patch1:         python-2.7-dirs.patch
@@ -59,6 +58,8 @@ BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
+# for the test suite
+BuildRequires:  netcfg
 # explicitly, see bnc#697251:
 Requires:       libpython2_7-1_0 = %{version}
 Provides:       %{name} = %{python_version}
@@ -203,9 +204,6 @@ find . -wholename "./Parser" -prune -o -name '*.py' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 g
 # install it
 ########################################
 %make_install OPT="%{optflags} -fPIC"
-# install site-specific tweaks
-#ln -s python%{python_version} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/python2
-install -m 644 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python%{python_version}/distutils
 install -m 644 %{SOURCE5} %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/python%{python_version}/site-packages
 install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/rpm
 install -m 644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/rpm