diff --git a/libselinux.spec b/libselinux.spec
index 981d3db..9e61e60 100644
--- a/libselinux.spec
+++ b/libselinux.spec
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ needed for developing SELinux applications.
 
 %build
 export LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}"
+export DISABLE_RPM="y"
 
 # To support building the Python wrapper against multiple Python runtimes
 # Define a function, for how to perform a "build" of the python wrapper against