diff --git a/gimp.spec b/gimp.spec
index 4f03ff5..16fc2ff 100644
--- a/gimp.spec
+++ b/gimp.spec
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ Version:        2.4.0
 %define age 0
 %define minorver 400
 %define microver %(ver=%{version}; echo ${ver##*.*.})
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Epoch:          2
 License:        GPLv2+
 Group:          Applications/Multimedia
 URL:            http://www.gimp.org/
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root-%(%__id_u -n)
-Obsoletes:      gimp2 gimp-beta <= 2.4
+Obsoletes:      gimp2 gimp-beta <= %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}2.4
 Obsoletes:      gimp-perl < 2:2.0
 BuildRequires:  alsa-lib-devel >= 1.0.0
 BuildRequires:  curl-devel >= 7.15.1
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 25 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com> - 2:2.4.0-2
+- add epoch to obsoletes
+
 * Wed Oct 24 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com> - 2:2.4.0-1
 - version 2.4.0
 - use xdg-open instead of htmlview on Fedora 7 and later