diff --git a/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.spec b/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.spec
index a00fd45..0cff716 100644
--- a/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.spec
+++ b/perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:			perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
 Version:		2.21
-Release:		2%{?dist}
+Release:		3%{?dist}
 Summary:		Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
 
 Group:			Development/Libraries
@@ -37,6 +37,24 @@ Excel file.
 %{__perl} -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' Changes README bin/chartex \
      doc/*.html charts/{README,*.{pl,pod,txt}} examples/{README,*.{pl,txt}}
 
+# make sure doc/tests don't generate provides
+# note we first filter out the bits in _docdir...
+cat << \EOF > %{name}-prov
+#!/bin/sh
+%{__perl_provides} `perl -p -e 's|\S+%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}\S+||'`
+EOF
+
+%define __perl_provides %{_builddir}/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-%{version}/%{name}-prov
+chmod +x %{__perl_provides}
+
+cat << \EOF > %{name}-req
+#!/bin/sh
+%{__perl_requires} `perl -p -e 's|\S+%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}\S+||'`
+EOF
+
+%define __perl_requires %{_builddir}/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-%{version}/%{name}-req
+chmod +x %{__perl_requires}
+
 %build
 %{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
@@ -46,7 +64,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} ';'
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type d -depth -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
-chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
+%{_fixperms} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
 
 %check
 make test
@@ -63,6 +81,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Feb 27 2009 Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> 2.21-3
+- remove new provides/requires rpm is finding on f11 (RHBZ#473874, also
+  visible at http://tinyurl.com/cp75ml koji build log for 2.21-2/f11)
+
 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.21-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild