diff --git a/post-build-checks-parrot.patch b/post-build-checks-parrot.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6c7f8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/post-build-checks-parrot.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--- ./checks/04-check-filelist.orig	2009-08-10 00:17:17.000000000 +0000
++++ ./checks/04-check-filelist	2010-02-19 10:59:17.000000000 +0000
+@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ if [ ! -z "$ALL_RPMS" ] ; then
+ 		;;
+ 	  esac
+         ;;
++	/usr/src/parrot*)
++	  case $RPM_NAME in
++	    parrot-devel)
++		;;
++	    *)
++		echo "$RPM_NAME: \"$LINE\" may only be packaged in the parrot-devel package"
++		UNVALID_FILE_FOUND=true
++		;;
++	  esac
++	;;
+ 	# exceptions for CVS/RCS/liveeval
+ 	/usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/RCS|\
+ 	/usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/*|\
diff --git a/post-build-checks.changes b/post-build-checks.changes
index 0085739..eb00496 100644
--- a/post-build-checks.changes
+++ b/post-build-checks.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 19 12:00:32 CET 2010 - mls@suse.de
+
+- allow /usr/src/parrot in parrot-devel
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb  6 17:31:27 CET 2010 - detlef@links2linux.de
 
diff --git a/post-build-checks.spec b/post-build-checks.spec
index 5047a18..b4bc1e7 100644
--- a/post-build-checks.spec
+++ b/post-build-checks.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ PreReq:         aaa_base permissions sed
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        suse-buildsystem.sh
 Patch0:         %{name}-umount.patch
+Patch1:         %{name}-parrot.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ it may not be a good idea to install this to a running system:
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch1
 
 %build
 # nothing to do