diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5ecfdfe..6d330a1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
+/*.src.rpm
 /cereal-1.2.1.tar.gz
+/cereal-1.2.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/cereal.spec b/cereal.spec
index fd096f0..435aa4c 100644
--- a/cereal.spec
+++ b/cereal.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+# The (empty) main package is arch, to have the package built and tests run
+# on all arches, but the actual result package is the noarch -devel subpackge.
+# Debuginfo packages are disabled to prevent rpmbuild from generating an empty
+# debuginfo package for the empty main package.
+%global debug_package %{nil}
+
 Name:           cereal
-Version:        1.2.1
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.2.2
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        A header-only C++11 serialization library
 License:        BSD
 Url:            http://uscilab.github.io/cereal/
 Source0:        https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
 BuildRequires:  %{?fedora:cmake >= 3.0}%{?rhel:cmake3 >= 3.0}
@@ -21,6 +25,7 @@ easily bundled with other code or used standalone.
 
 %package devel
 Summary:        Development headers and libraries for %{name}
+BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description devel
 cereal is a header-only C++11 serialization library. cereal takes arbitrary
@@ -33,22 +38,18 @@ This package contains development headers and libraries for the cereal library
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-#https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal/pull/337
-sed -i 's/-Werror//' CMakeLists.txt
 
 %build
 mkdir %{_target_platform}
 pushd %{_target_platform}
-%{?fedora:%{cmake}}%{?rhel:%{cmake3}} .. -DSKIP_PORTABILITY_TEST=ON
+%{?fedora:%{cmake}}%{?rhel:%{cmake3}} .. -DSKIP_PORTABILITY_TEST=ON -DWITH_WERROR=OFF
 %make_build
 
 %install
 %make_install -C %{_target_platform}
 
 %check
-#test_portable_binary_archive is broken
-#https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal/issues/338
-make -C %{_target_platform} test ARGS="-V -E test_portable_binary_archive"
+make -C %{_target_platform} test ARGS="-V"
 
 %files devel
 %doc README.md
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@ make -C %{_target_platform} test ARGS="-V -E test_portable_binary_archive"
 %{_datadir}/cmake/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Feb 15 2017 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.2.2-1
+- Update to v1.2.2 (bug #1422474) 
+
 * Sat Sep 03 2016 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.2.1-2
 - Minor changes from review (bug #1372403)
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 610b668..4f81666 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-64476ed74c19068ee543b53ad3992261  cereal-1.2.1.tar.gz
+SHA512 (cereal-1.2.2.tar.gz) = 9567b2e19add9446b24f8afd122eea09ba6ecd1a090335cf0ab31fdc8f64c6c97daa3d9eaf0801c36a770737488e0eebf81d96d7b7a65deed30da6130f2d47eb