diff --git a/0001-appliance-Print-guestfsd.deps-after-generation.patch b/0001-appliance-Print-guestfsd.deps-after-generation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..619db45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-appliance-Print-guestfsd.deps-after-generation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From b5260d8cd62f93b1cc4faf285bc3b6d8e0168e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 11:10:29 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] appliance: Print guestfsd.deps after generation
+
+Sometimes generating this file fails.  To help with debugging these
+situatons, print the guestfsd.deps file after it has been generated.
+---
+ appliance/Makefile.am | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/appliance/Makefile.am b/appliance/Makefile.am
+index 6dd1df75a6..9a0ba98a06 100644
+--- a/appliance/Makefile.am
++++ b/appliance/Makefile.am
+@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ guestfsd.deps: ../daemon/guestfsd
+ 		sort -u > $@.t
+ 	rm -f ld.so.cache.txt
+ 	mv $@.t $@
++	@echo "guestfsd.deps:"
++	@cat $@
+ 
+ packagelist: packagelist.in Makefile guestfsd.deps
+ 	m4 $(PACKAGELIST_CPP_FLAGS) $< | \
+-- 
+2.35.1
+
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 8d05158..6e5d73d 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 # If there are patches which touch autotools files, set this to 1.
 %if !0%{?rhel}
-%global patches_touch_autotools %{nil}
+%global patches_touch_autotools 1
 %else
 # On RHEL the downstream patches always touch autotools files.
 %global patches_touch_autotools 1
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Summary:       Access and modify virtual machine disk images
 Name:          libguestfs
 Epoch:         1
 Version:       1.49.1
-Release:       1%{?dist}
+Release:       2%{?dist}
 License:       LGPLv2+
 
 # Build only for architectures that have a kernel
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Source7:       libguestfs.keyring
 # Maintainer script which helps with handling patches.
 Source8:       copy-patches.sh
 
+# Upstream patch which helps debugging appliance generation.
+Patch1:        0001-appliance-Print-guestfsd.deps-after-generation.patch
+
 %if 0%{patches_touch_autotools}
 BuildRequires: autoconf, automake, libtool, gettext-devel
 %endif
@@ -1124,6 +1127,9 @@ rm ocaml/html/.gitignore
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat May 21 2022 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.49.1-2
+- Add upstream patch which helps debugging appliance generation.
+
 * Thu May 12 2022 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.49.1-1
 - New upstream development version 1.49.1