diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index 1d0f922..52ee25f 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 16 09:08:08 UTC 2022 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Fix build with RPM 4.18: rpm wants to do a proper cleanup, and
+  fails on the design choice to have /usr/lib65 without write
+  permission. As we already tar'ed the content up, we can simply
+  change the permissions of winsupport's content to allow proper
+  erasing.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov 30 14:34:58 UTC 2022 - Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index c1481ca..a59eaa4 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -259,6 +259,10 @@ libfuse2
 hwinfo
 EOF
 
+# do some cleanup so that rpm can properly empty directories without permission denie
+# The winsupport directory has already been tar'ed up, so we don't care much
+find winsupport -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
+
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/tmp/usr/bin
 cp %{S:100} %{buildroot}/tmp/usr/bin
 chmod a+x %{buildroot}/tmp/usr/bin/*