diff --git a/appstream.spec b/appstream.spec
index 2e68198..b5171a6 100644
--- a/appstream.spec
+++ b/appstream.spec
@@ -130,9 +130,10 @@ make test -C %{_target_platform} ARGS="--output-on-failure --timeout 300"
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/appstream.pc
 %dir %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/AppStream-0.8.gir
-%dir %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/
-%dir %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/
-%{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/appstream
+%{_docdir}/appstream/html/
+## symlink pointing to ^^, but need to take care, since rpm has
+## trouble replacing dirs with symlinks, omit it for now -- rex
+%exclude %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/appstream
 
 %post qt -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun qt -p /sbin/ldconfig