diff --git a/fail2ban.changes b/fail2ban.changes
index 62829ba..48fb3c8 100644
--- a/fail2ban.changes
+++ b/fail2ban.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Mar 10 14:09:51 UTC 2016 - jweberhofer@weberhofer.at
+
+- Mark /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf as noreplace.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 10 10:58:53 UTC 2016 - jweberhofer@weberhofer.at
 
diff --git a/fail2ban.spec b/fail2ban.spec
index 5b1fa91..440bdd4 100644
--- a/fail2ban.spec
+++ b/fail2ban.spec
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create %{_tmpfilesdir}/%{name}.conf
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/action.d/*
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/filter.d/*
 #
-%config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/fail2ban.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/fail2ban.conf
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/jail.conf
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/paths-common.conf
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/paths-opensuse.conf