diff --git a/plymouth-0.5.0-fix-ppc.patch b/plymouth-0.5.0-fix-ppc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99e5404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plymouth-0.5.0-fix-ppc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -up plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in.fix-ppc plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in
+--- plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in.fix-ppc	2008-07-08 13:51:02.000000000 -0400
++++ plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2008-07-08 13:51:19.000000000 -0400
+@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ EOF
+     for bin in $BINS ; do
+         DEPS=$(get_dso_deps $bin)
+         for dep in $DEPS; do
++            mkdir -p ${INITRDDIR}$(dirname $dep)
+             install -D -m755 $dep ${INITRDDIR}$(dirname $dep)
+         done
+     done
diff --git a/plymouth.spec b/plymouth.spec
index 3e02821..b8217e4 100644
--- a/plymouth.spec
+++ b/plymouth.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Plymouth Graphical Boot Animation and Logger
 Name: plymouth
 Version: 0.5.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Group: System Environment/Base
 Source0: http://freedesktop.org/software/plymouth/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Requires: system-logos >= 9.0.1
 Requires: elfutils
 Requires: system-plymouth-plugin >= %{version}-%{release}
 
+Patch0: plymouth-0.5.0-fix-ppc.patch
+
 %description
 Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in
 place of the text messages that normally get shown.  Text
@@ -66,6 +68,8 @@ spins in the shape of an infinity sign.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
+%patch0 -p1 -b .fix-ppc
+
 %build
 %configure --enable-tracing --disable-tests --without-boot-entry \
            --without-default-plugin                              \
@@ -170,6 +174,9 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/plymouth/spinfinity.so
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul  8 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 0.5.0-3
+- Fix populate script on ppc (bug 454353)
+
 * Tue Jul  1 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 0.5.0-2
 - Pull in spinfinity by default.  This whole "figure out
   which plugin to use" set of scripts and scriptlets