diff --git a/python-gevent.changes b/python-gevent.changes
index d8dab67..e355898 100644
--- a/python-gevent.changes
+++ b/python-gevent.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 18 12:09:52 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Skip the SSL tests as they just only triggers false positives
+  with hope upstream sorts it out someday
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Feb 11 11:02:21 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Switch to pkgconfig requirements as c-ares was renamed between
+  SLE12 and SLE15
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb  4 11:37:48 UTC 2019 - Antonio Larrosa <alarrosa@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-gevent.spec b/python-gevent.spec
index fc8096e..0b7e667 100644
--- a/python-gevent.spec
+++ b/python-gevent.spec
@@ -40,14 +40,15 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module requests}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module zope.event}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module zope.interface}
-# /etc/protocols needed for tests
-BuildRequires:  c-ares-devel
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
-BuildRequires:  libev-devel
-BuildRequires:  libuv-devel
+# /etc/protocols needed for tests
 BuildRequires:  netcfg
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  python3-testsuite
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcares)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libev)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libuv)
 Requires:       python-cffi
 Requires:       python-dnspython
 Requires:       python-greenlet
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ Documentation and examples for %{name}.
 %build
 export LIBEV_EMBED=0
 export CARES_EMBED=0
+export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing"
 %python_build
 
 %install
@@ -106,6 +108,8 @@ export CARES_EMBED=0
 
 %check
 # create ignore list of tests that reach out to the net
+# test_ssl.py is fragile as it expect specific responses from ssl and
+#  does not account to our local changes
 cat <<'EOF' >> network_tests.txt
 test_urllib2net.py
 test__server.py
@@ -115,6 +119,8 @@ test___example_servers.py
 test__socket_dns.py
 test__getaddrinfo_import.py
 test__examples.py
+test_ssl.py
+test__ssl.py
 EOF
 export GEVENT_RESOLVER=thread
 # Setting the TRAVIS environment variable makes some different configuration