diff --git a/s390-tools.changes b/s390-tools.changes
index 8195193..c8e1917 100644
--- a/s390-tools.changes
+++ b/s390-tools.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
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-Wed Jan 30 19:40:36 UTC 2019 - Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
+Thu Feb 14 23:53:57 UTC 2019 - mpost@suse.com
 
-- Require cpacfstats group (bsc#1123730).
+- Modified the spec file to add a group named cpacfstats
+  (bsc#1123730)
 
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 Mon Jan 28 17:38:15 UTC 2019 - mpost@suse.com
diff --git a/s390-tools.spec b/s390-tools.spec
index 5bda2ac..5e848c7 100644
--- a/s390-tools.spec
+++ b/s390-tools.spec
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ BuildRequires:  zlib-devel-static
 # Don't build with pie to avoid problems with zipl
 #!BuildIgnore:  gcc-PIE
 PreReq:         shadow %fillup_prereq dracut permissions
-Requires(pre):  group(cpacfstats)
 Requires:       coreutils
 Requires:       gawk
 Requires:       perl-base
@@ -518,6 +517,8 @@ chmod 755 osasnmpd
 getent group ts-shell >/dev/null 2>&1 || groupadd -r ts-shell
 # check for zkeyadm group or create it
 getent group zkeyadm >/dev/null 2>&1 || groupadd -r zkeyadm
+# check for cpacfstats group or create it
+getent group cpacfstats >/dev/null 2>&1 2>&1 || groupadd -r cpacfstats
 %service_add_pre appldata.service
 %service_add_pre cio_ignore.service
 %service_add_pre cpacfstatsd.service