diff --git a/python-six.changes b/python-six.changes
index a179f9d..ba1d584 100644
--- a/python-six.changes
+++ b/python-six.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 10 07:53:50 UTC 2020 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Do not cause buildcycle with previous change but rather
+  install the egg-info prepared metadata from the tarball
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar  9 20:54:38 UTC 2020 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-six.spec b/python-six.spec
index 3d3fdb6..71a4f70 100644
--- a/python-six.spec
+++ b/python-six.spec
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Python
 URL:            http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/s/six/six-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module base}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 BuildArch:      noarch
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ cd documentation && make html && rm _build/html/.buildinfo
 %if ! %{with test}
 %python_install
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
+# add the setuptools egg-info directory
+%{python_expand rm %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/six-%{version}-py%{$python_version}.egg-info
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/six-%{version}-py%{$python_version}.egg-info/
+cp six.egg-info/* %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}/six-%{version}-py%{$python_version}.egg-info/
+}
 %endif
 
 %check