diff --git a/mdadm.changes b/mdadm.changes
index 4101d9b..a8a9c6d 100644
--- a/mdadm.changes
+++ b/mdadm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 14 13:21:33 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Own %{_systemdshutdowndir} in case nothing else does. This
+  ensures build success even if systemd-mini does not own it
+  (happens in some versions of our package).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Aug 31 11:43:43 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index a06a7b6..f5c8058 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ ln -s %{_sbindir}/service %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/rcmdmonitor
 /etc/cron.daily/mdadm
 %dir /etc/cron.d
 %config /etc/cron.d/mdadm
+# %%{_systemdshutdowndir}/ is not owned by all versions of systemd-mini.
+# But we really do not want to pull in a full systemd, so we rather just own
+# that directory by ourselves too. After all, this is allowed.
+%dir %{_systemdshutdowndir}
 %{_systemdshutdowndir}/mdadm.shutdown
 %{_unitdir}/mdmon@.service
 %{_unitdir}/mdmonitor.service