diff --git a/perl.changes b/perl.changes
index 777f3ee..7625e80 100644
--- a/perl.changes
+++ b/perl.changes
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ Mon Dec  4 17:50:10 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com
 
 - Add perl-reproducible.patch to make build reproducible (boo#1047218)
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 23 13:43:59 UTC 2017 - rbrown@suse.com
+
+- Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new 
+  %_fillupdir macro (boo#1069468)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep 23 10:40:59 UTC 2017 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index 6c4f743..c4c7daa 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # icecream 0
 
 
+#Compat macro for new _fillupdir macro introduced in Nov 2017
+%if ! %{defined _fillupdir}
+  %define _fillupdir /var/adm/fillup-templates
+%endif
+
 Name:           perl
 Summary:        The Perl interpreter
 License:        Artistic-1.0 or GPL-2.0+
@@ -245,10 +250,10 @@ install -m 444 saveConfig.pm $cpa/Config.pm
 install -m 444 saveConfig_heavy.pl $cpa/Config_heavy.pl
 #install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/adm/SuSEconfig/bin
 #install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/conf.d
-#install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/adm/fillup-templates
+#install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_fillupdir}
 #install -m 755 SuSE/perllocal.SuSE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/perl5
 #install -m 755 SuSE/SuSEconfig.perl $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/conf.d
-#install -m 755 SuSE/sysconfig.suseconfig-perl $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/adm/fillup-templates
+#install -m 755 SuSE/sysconfig.suseconfig-perl $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_fillupdir}
 # install macros.perl file
 install -D -m 644 %{S:2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/rpm/macros.perl
 pushd /usr/include
@@ -415,7 +420,7 @@ EOF
 /usr/lib/perl5/*
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/rpm/macros.perl
 #/sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.perl
-#/var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.suseconfig-perl
+#%{_fillupdir}/sysconfig.suseconfig-perl
 #%ghost /usr/lib/perl*/*/*/perllocal.pod
 #%ghost %doc /usr/share/man/man3/perllocal.3pm.gz