diff --git a/python-opentelemetry.rpmlintrc b/python-opentelemetry.rpmlintrc
index 108beac..b9e35a6 100644
--- a/python-opentelemetry.rpmlintrc
+++ b/python-opentelemetry.rpmlintrc
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Any .gitignore file packaged in the examples is part of a sample project and
 # is itself documentation, not an accidentally-packaged upstream VCS control
 # file.
-addFilter(r"hidden-file-or-dir .*/examples/.*\.gitignore$")
-addFilter(r"version-control-internal-file .*/examples/.*\.gitignore$")
+addFilter(r" hidden-file-or-dir /\S+/examples/(\S+/)?\.gitignore$")
+addFilter(r" version-control-internal-file /\S+/examples/(\S+/)?\.gitignore$")
 # Some small files in the documentation may incidentally have duplicate
 # contents. Because they are small in size and few in number, it is not worth
 # the spec-file complexity to hardlink them (which would itself trigger an
 # rpmlint warning about cross-directory hardlinking).
-addFilter(r"files-duplicate .*/python-opentelemetry-doc/.*/(version\.py|requirements\.txt)$")
+addFilter(r" files-duplicate /\S+/python-opentelemetry-doc/.*/(version\.py|requirements\.txt)$")
 # When upstream reorganized the libraries for the 1.0 release, it was necessary
 # to Obsolete a number of subpackages to provide an upgrade path, but since the
 # import names and APIs were different, it was not possible to offer drop-in
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ addFilter(r"files-duplicate .*/python-opentelemetry-doc/.*/(version\.py|requirem
 # been deprecated and then dropped without replacement in post-1.0 releases.
 #
 # https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages.
-addFilter(r"obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-((auto-)?instrumentation|distro(\+otlp)?|test)$")
-addFilter(r"obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger(-proto-grpc|-thrift)?$")
-addFilter(r"obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-ext-.*$")
+addFilter(r" obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-((auto-)?instrumentation|distro(\+otlp)?|test)$")
+addFilter(r" obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger(-proto-grpc|-thrift)?$")
+addFilter(r" obsolete-not-provided python3-opentelemetry-ext-.*$")
 # These are valid words. (“ve” is part of “they’ve”)
-addFilter(r"spelling-error \('(proto|json|grpc|github|ve)', ")
+addFilter(r" spelling-error \('(proto|json|grpc|github|ve)', ")