diff --git a/cloud-init.changes b/cloud-init.changes
index 343ead9..5d4f748 100644
--- a/cloud-init.changes
+++ b/cloud-init.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 28 15:54:32 UTC 2014 - rschweikert@suse.com
+
+- declare rsyslog.d only for distros where it is created
+  fixes build error on SLE 11
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 28 15:14:02 UTC 2014 - rschweikert@suse.com
 
diff --git a/cloud-init.spec b/cloud-init.spec
index ac8f48e..915a822 100644
--- a/cloud-init.spec
+++ b/cloud-init.spec
@@ -227,11 +227,12 @@ popd
 %{systemd_prefix}/systemd/system/cloud-final.service
 %endif
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} > 1110
+%dir %{_sysconfdir}/rsyslog.d
 %{_sysconfdir}/rsyslog.d/21-cloudinit.conf
 %endif
 %dir %attr(0755, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/cloud
 %dir %{docdir}
-%dir %{_sysconfdir}/rsyslog.d
+
 
 %files doc
 %defattr(-,root,root)