diff --git a/filesystem.changes b/filesystem.changes
index 37a7345..3beed28 100644
--- a/filesystem.changes
+++ b/filesystem.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar  3 11:48:31 CET 2014 - ro@suse.de
+
+- change pre to pretrans for directory/symlink conversion 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb 28 13:56:47 CET 2014 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/filesystem.spec b/filesystem.spec
index 8112ac2..228e9f1 100644
--- a/filesystem.spec
+++ b/filesystem.spec
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ test -n "$NON_EXISTING_DIR" && {
     exit 1
 }
 
-%pre -p <lua>
+%pretrans -p <lua>
 os.remove ("/usr/include/X11")
 os.remove ("/usr/lib/X11")
 st = posix.stat("/var/run")
@@ -197,13 +197,10 @@ if st and st.type == "directory" then
   sta = posix.stat("/var/run/systemd")
   if sta and sta.type == "directory" then
     posix.umount("/var/run")
-    os.execute("rm -rf /var/run")
-    posix.symlink("/run","/var/run")
-  else
-    os.rename("/var/run","/var/run.old")
-    posix.symlink("/run","/var/run")
-    os.execute("cp -a /var/run.old/* /run")
   end
+  os.rename("/var/run","/var/run.old")
+  posix.symlink("/run","/var/run")
+  os.execute("rm -rf /var/run.old")
 end
 
 %files -f filesystem.list