diff --git a/lvm2.spec b/lvm2.spec
index 338b991..5938c99 100644
--- a/lvm2.spec
+++ b/lvm2.spec
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ install -m 0700 -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lock/lvm
 install -m 0600 /dev/null $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/lvm/cache/.cache
 mkdir -p -m755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rc.d/init.d
 install scripts/clvmd_init_rhel4 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rc.d/init.d/clvmd
+mkdir -p -m755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin
 install -m 0755 scripts/lvmconf.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/lvmconf
 
 cd device-mapper.%{device_mapper_version}
@@ -270,6 +271,9 @@ This package contains the device-mapper shared library, libdevmapper.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 24 2008 Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>> - 2.02.39-5
+- Explicitly create /sbin in the build root.
+
 * Sun Sep 21 2008 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 2.02.39-5
 - Change %%patch to %%patch0 to match Patch0 as required by RPM package update.