diff --git a/ignore-tdb1-run-transaction-expand.diff b/ignore-tdb1-run-transaction-expand.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6fa36c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ignore-tdb1-run-transaction-expand.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Author: Debian tdb maintainers
+Bugzilla: 769268 - tdb: tdb1-run-transaction-expand test fails on ppc64
+
+Index: tdb-1.2.10/wscript
+===================================================================
+--- tdb-1.2.10.orig/wscript
++++ tdb-1.2.10/wscript
+@@ -192,8 +192,9 @@ def testonly(ctx):
+             if ret != 0:
+                 print("%s failed:" % f)
+                 samba_utils.RUN_COMMAND("cat " + os.path.join(testdir, 'test-output'))
+-                ecode = ret;
+-                break;
++                if f != 'tdb1-run-transaction-expand':
++                    ecode = ret;
++                    break;
+ 
+     if ecode == 0:
+         cmd = os.path.join(Utils.g_module.blddir, 'tdbtorture')
diff --git a/tdb.changes b/tdb.changes
index 363cafe..b68c994 100644
--- a/tdb.changes
+++ b/tdb.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jul  7 15:42:23 UTC 2012 - dvaleev@suse.com
+
+- Ignore tdb run transaction expand check on ppc as well 
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun 28 21:19:51 UTC 2012 - lmuelle@suse.com
+
+- Ignore tdb run transaction expand check on ppc64; (bnc#769268).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 21 20:40:55 UTC 2012 - adrian@suse.de
 
diff --git a/tdb.spec b/tdb.spec
index 1bcd5ed..699bec6 100644
--- a/tdb.spec
+++ b/tdb.spec
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Group:          System/Libraries
 Source:         http://download.samba.org/pub/tdb/tdb-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        http://download.samba.org/pub/tdb/tdb-%{version}.tar.asc
 Source4:        baselibs.conf
+Patch0:         ignore-tdb1-run-transaction-expand.diff
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -114,6 +115,9 @@ This package contains the python bindings for the Tdb library.
 
 %prep
 %setup -n tdb-%{version} -q
+%ifarch ppc ppc64
+%patch0 -p1
+%endif
 
 %build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 911