diff --git a/gdal.spec b/gdal.spec
index 1fea0b3..6864130 100644
--- a/gdal.spec
+++ b/gdal.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:      gdal
 Version:   1.7.3
-Release:   3.1%{?dist}
+Release:   4%{?dist}
 Summary:   GIS file format library
 Group:     System Environment/Libraries
 License:   MIT
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ BuildRequires: ant swig ruby java-devel-gcj
 %{!?python_lib: %define python_lib %(%{__python} -c 'from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)')}
 %{!?ruby_sitelib: %define ruby_sitelib %(ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["sitearchdir"]')}
 
+# We don't want to provide private python extension libs
+%{?filter_setup:
+%filter_provides_in %{python_lib}/.*\.so %{_libdir}/perl5/.*\.so$ 
+%filter_setup
+}
+
 %if %{grass_support}
 BuildRequires: grass-devel
 %endif
@@ -139,12 +145,6 @@ This package contains html and pdf documentation for GDAL.
 # unpack test cases also.
 tar -xzf %{SOURCE1}
 
-# fix russian docs from tarball
-for ru in `find doc/ru/ -type f -name "*.dox"`; do
-iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF-8 < $ru > $ru.tmp
-mv -f $ru.tmp  $ru
-done
-
 set +x
 for f in `find . -type f` ; do
    if file $f | grep -q ISO-8859 ; then
@@ -380,20 +380,24 @@ install -p -m 644 doc/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/en
 install -p -m 644 doc/br/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/br/
 install -p -m 644 latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/
 install -p -m 644 latex/class*.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/
+install -p -m 644 doc/ru/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ru/
 install -p -m 644 ogr/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ogr/
 install -p -m 644 ogr/latex/class*.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ogr/
 install -p -m 644 ogr/ogrsf_frmts/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ogrsf_frmts/
-%ifnarch ppc ppc64
-install -p -m 644 ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dgn/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ogrsf_frmts/dgn/
-%endif
+# Doesn't work at all. Complaints about different nesting level in \pdfendlink
+#%ifnarch ppc ppc64
+#install -p -m 644 ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dgn/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/ogrsf_frmts/dgn/
+#%endif
 %if "%{?dist}" != ".el4"
 # broken on el4
 install -p -m 644 frmts/gxf/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/frmts/gxf/
 install -p -m 644 frmts/sdts/latex/class*.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/frmts/gxf/
 %endif
-%ifnarch ppc ppc64
-install -p -m 644 frmts/sdts/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/frmts/sdts/
-%endif
+# Doesn't work at all. Complaints about different nesting level in \pdfendlink
+# Working in GDAL 1.8.0, funny enough!
+#%ifnarch ppc ppc64
+#install -p -m 644 frmts/sdts/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/frmts/sdts/
+#%endif
 install -p -m 644 frmts/iso8211/latex/refman.pdf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf/frmts/iso8211/
 mkdir -p doc/docs-perl/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf
 install -p -m 644 swig/perl/latex/refman.pdf doc/docs-perl/docs-%{cpuarch}/pdf
@@ -409,6 +413,10 @@ cp -pr doc/br/html/* docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/br
 cp -pr doc/ru/html/* docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/ru
 cp -pr swig/perl/html/* doc/docs-perl/docs-%{cpuarch}/
 
+# Remove installation shell script
+rm -rf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/ru/installdox
+rm -rf docs/docs-%{cpuarch}/en/html/installdox
+
 # install multilib cpl_config.h bz#430894
 install -p -D -m 644 port/cpl_config.h %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/%{name}/cpl_config-%{cpuarch}.h
 # create universal multilib cpl_config.h bz#341231
@@ -500,20 +508,18 @@ popd
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
-%post 
-/sbin/ldconfig
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
-%postun
-/sbin/ldconfig
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
-# update maven2 depmap
 %post java
 /sbin/ldconfig
+# update maven2 depmap
 %update_maven_depmap
 
-# update maven2 depmap
 %postun java
 /sbin/ldconfig
+# update maven2 depmap
 %update_maven_depmap
 
 %files
@@ -592,6 +598,14 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc docs
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Mar 20 2011 Volker Fröhlich <volker27@gmx.at> 1.7.3-4
+- Dropped unnecessary encoding conversion for Russian refman
+- Install Russian refman
+- Don't try to install refman for sdts and dgn, as they fail to compile
+- Added -p to post and postun
+- Remove private-shared-object-provides for Python and Perl
+- Remove installdox scripts
+
 * Wed Mar 16 2011 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 1.7.3-3.1
 - current gcc doesn't accept -Xcompiler 
 - some pdf's don't build on ppc, ignore them atm.