diff --git a/slurm.changes b/slurm.changes
index 2eea5eb..e8c3605 100644
--- a/slurm.changes
+++ b/slurm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar  4 13:05:07 UTC 2020 - Christian Goll <cgoll@suse.com>
+
+- slurm-plugins will now also require pmix not only libpmix 
+  (bsc#1164326)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb 28 17:27:43 UTC 2020 - Egbert Eich <eich@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/slurm.spec b/slurm.spec
index 012f141..2369fef 100644
--- a/slurm.spec
+++ b/slurm.spec
@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ Summary:        SLURM plugins (loadable shared objects)
 Group:          Productivity/Clustering/Computing
 %{?upgrade:Provides: %{pname}-plugins = %{version}}
 %{?upgrade:Conflicts: %{pname}-plugins}
+%if %{with pmix}
+Requires:       libpmix%{pmix_so}
+Requires:       pmix
+%endif
 
 %description plugins
 This package contains the SLURM plugins (loadable shared objects)
@@ -371,9 +375,6 @@ Requires:       perl-Switch
 Provides:       torque-client
 %{?upgrade:Provides: %{pname}-torque = %{version}}
 %{?upgrade:Conflicts: %{pname}-torque}
-%if %{with pmix}
-Requires:       libpmix%{pmix_so}
-%endif
 
 %description torque
 Wrapper scripts for aiding migration from Torque/PBS to SLURM.