diff --git a/colord.spec b/colord.spec
index 48b12f2..db4485b 100644
--- a/colord.spec
+++ b/colord.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary:   Color daemon
 Name:      colord
 Version:   0.1.6
-Release:   1%{?dist}
+Release:   2%{?dist}
 License:   GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
 URL:       http://gitorious.org/colord
 Source0:   http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 
+# databases
+touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_localstatedir}/lib/colord/mapping.db
+touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_localstatedir}/lib/colord/storage.db
+
 %find_lang %{name}
 
 %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -61,6 +65,7 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc README AUTHORS NEWS COPYING
 %{_libexecdir}/colord
+%dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/colord
 %{_bindir}/*
 %{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.conf
 %{_datadir}/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.ColorManager*.xml
@@ -72,6 +77,7 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 /lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules
 %dir %{_datadir}/color/icc/colord
 %{_datadir}/color/icc/colord/*.ic?
+%ghost %{_localstatedir}/lib/colord/*.db
 
 %files devel
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
@@ -80,6 +86,9 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/colord.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Apr 26 2011 Richard Hughes <rhughes@redhat.com> 0.1.6-2
+- Own /var/lib/colord and /var/lib/colord/*.db
+
 * Sun Apr 24 2011 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> 0.1.6-1
 - New upstream version.