diff --git a/sphinx.spec b/sphinx.spec
index c9dd0d7..3754790 100644
--- a/sphinx.spec
+++ b/sphinx.spec
@@ -20,10 +20,9 @@
 
 Name:		sphinx
 Version:	2.2.11
-Release:	34%{?dist}
+Release:	29%{?dist}
 Summary:	Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
-# Automatically converted from old format: GPLv2+ - review is highly recommended.
-License:	GPL-2.0-or-later
+License:	GPLv2+
 URL:		http://sphinxsearch.com
 
 Source0:	http://sphinxsearch.com/files/%{name}-%{version}-release.tar.gz
@@ -45,6 +44,7 @@ Requires(preun):	systemd
 Requires(postun):	systemd
 
 # Users and groups
+Requires(pre):		shadow-utils
        
 
 %description
@@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ designed with indexing database content in mind.
 
 %prep
 %setup -qn %{name}-%{version}-release
-%patch -P0 -p1 -b .fix_static
-%patch -P1 -p1 -b .default_listen
-%patch -P2 -p1
-%patch -P3 -p1
+%patch0 -p1 -b .fix_static
+%patch1 -p1 -b .default_listen
+%patch2 -p1
+%patch3 -p1
 
 # Fix wrong-file-end-of-line-encoding
 for f in \
@@ -134,12 +134,6 @@ done
 # Fix file not UTF8
 iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 doc/%{name}.txt > doc/%{name}.txt.conv && mv -f doc/%{name}.txt.conv doc/%{name}.txt
 
-# Create a sysusers.d config file
-cat >sphinx.sysusers.conf <<EOF
-g sphinx -
-u sphinx - 'Sphinx Search' %{sphinx_home} /bin/bash
-EOF
-
 %build
 %if %{__isa_bits} == 64
 %configure --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir}/%{name} --with-mysql --with-pgsql --enable-id64
@@ -238,9 +232,13 @@ find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 # clean-up .a archives
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name '*.a' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 
-install -m0644 -D sphinx.sysusers.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysusersdir}/sphinx.conf
-
 
+%pre
+getent group %{sphinx_group} >/dev/null || groupadd -r %{sphinx_group}
+getent passwd %{sphinx_user} >/dev/null || \
+useradd -r -g %{sphinx_group} -d %{sphinx_home} -s /bin/bash \
+-c "Sphinx Search" %{sphinx_user}
+exit 0
 
 %post
 %systemd_post searchd.service
@@ -283,7 +281,6 @@ chown -R %{sphinx_user}:root %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/
 %dir %attr(0755, %{sphinx_user}, root) %{_localstatedir}/run/%{name}
 %dir %attr(0755, %{sphinx_user}, root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
-%{_sysusersdir}/sphinx.conf
 
 %files -n libsphinxclient
 %doc COPYING %{?with_java: api/java} api/ruby api/*.php api/*.py api/libsphinxclient/README
@@ -304,21 +301,6 @@ chown -R %{sphinx_user}:root %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/
 %{_datadir}/php/*
 
 %changelog
-* Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.11-34
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Feb 11 2025 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 2.2.11-33
-- Add sysusers.d config file to allow rpm to create users/groups automatically
-
-* Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.11-32
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Fri Jul 26 2024 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> - 2.2.11-31
-- convert license to SPDX
-
-* Sat Jul 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.11-30
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild
-
 * Sat Jan 27 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.11-29
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild