diff --git a/translation-update-upstream.changes b/translation-update-upstream.changes
index 3437748..c094f0c 100644
--- a/translation-update-upstream.changes
+++ b/translation-update-upstream.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 24 13:52:12 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- fake %find_lang as if the translations are provided by the packages
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Feb 23 17:11:45 CET 2011 - sbrabec@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/translation-update-upstream.spec b/translation-update-upstream.spec
index 7774777..ae439f6 100644
--- a/translation-update-upstream.spec
+++ b/translation-update-upstream.spec
@@ -126,13 +126,18 @@ rm -v $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/%{name}/po/glib-networking/master.po
 #
 # go through valid locales and fail in invalid ones
 #
+set +x
 cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir} ;
 echo translation*/*/*.po | sed 's:.*/::;s:\.po$::' | sort -u
 for LOCALE in $(set +x ; cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir} ; ls -1 translation*/*/*/*.po | sed 's:.*/::;s:\.po$::' | sort -u) ; do
 	if ! test -d /usr/share/locale/$LOCALE ; then
-		echo "Invalid locale $LOCALE! Please fix (delete, rename or add to filesystem package)."
-		exit 1
-	fi
+           for file in $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/translation*/*/*/$LOCALE.po; do
+               # fake it so it looks like removed from %find_lang
+               package=$(echo $file | sed -e 's,.*translation[^/]*/po/,,; s,/[^/]*.po,,')
+               echo -n "removing translation /usr/share/locale/$LOCALE/LC_MESSAGES/$package.mo: "
+               msgfmt -o - $file | msgunfmt -o - -| msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null -
+           done
+        fi
 done
 
 %clean