diff --git a/sphinx-c99.patch b/sphinx-c99.patch
index ffc7fb7..0fa1580 100644
--- a/sphinx-c99.patch
+++ b/sphinx-c99.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Add missing return types to avoid build failures with C99 compilers.
 Include <string.h> to avoid implicit function declarations.
-Avoid incompatible pointer types and a format string warning.
 
 Partially fixed via:
 
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ index 16f7913fa37b3bf3..0530fc2c65f1082c 100644
  	if ( sock<0 )
  		return;
 diff --git a/api/libsphinxclient/test.c b/api/libsphinxclient/test.c
-index f779bb1ff638a179..670e379b4ad3c36f 100644
+index f779bb1ff638a179..a4806ea9aca9c82c 100644
 --- a/api/libsphinxclient/test.c
 +++ b/api/libsphinxclient/test.c
 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
@@ -49,51 +48,3 @@ index f779bb1ff638a179..670e379b4ad3c36f 100644
  
  #if _WIN32
  #include <winsock2.h>
-@@ -218,7 +219,8 @@ void test_excerpt_spz ( sphinx_client * client )
- 
- void test_persist_work ( sphinx_client * client )
- {
--	char * docs[] = { NULL };
-+	const char * docs[] = { NULL };
-+	char *docs0;
- 	const char words[] = "that is";
- 	const char * index = "test1";
- 	const char filler[] = " no need to worry about ";
-@@ -229,13 +231,14 @@ void test_persist_work ( sphinx_client * client )
- 
- 	// should be in sync with sphinxclient.c MAX_PACKET_LEN
- 	i = 8*1024*1024 + 50;
--	docs[0] = malloc ( i );
--	if ( !docs[0] )
-+	docs0 = malloc ( i );
-+	if ( !docs0 )
- 		die ( "malloc failed at test_persist_work" );
-+	docs[0] = docs0;
- 
--	memcpy ( docs[0], words, sizeof(words)-1 );
--	doc = docs[0] + sizeof(words)-1;
--	while ( ( doc + sizeof(filler) )<docs[0]+i )
-+	memcpy ( docs0, words, sizeof(words)-1 );
-+	doc = docs0 + sizeof(words)-1;
-+	while ( ( doc + sizeof(filler) )<docs0+i )
- 	{
- 		memcpy ( doc, filler, sizeof(filler)-1 );
- 		doc += sizeof(filler)-1;
-@@ -264,7 +267,7 @@ void test_persist_work ( sphinx_client * client )
- 			opts.html_strip_mode = "none";
- 			opts.query_mode = SPH_TRUE;
- 
--			*( docs[0]+sizeof(words)+100 ) = '\0';
-+			*( docs0+sizeof(words)+100 ) = '\0';
- 		}
- 
- 		printf ( "n=%d,\t", i );
-@@ -405,7 +408,7 @@ void title ( const char * name )
- 	if ( g_smoke || !name )
- 		return;
- 
--	printf ( "-> % s <-\n\n", name );
-+	printf ( "-> %s <-\n\n", name );
- }
- 
- int main ( int argc, char ** argv )
diff --git a/sphinx.spec b/sphinx.spec
index c9dd0d7..3ad6e22 100644
--- a/sphinx.spec
+++ b/sphinx.spec
@@ -20,10 +20,9 @@
 
 Name:		sphinx
 Version:	2.2.11
-Release:	34%{?dist}
+Release:	27%{?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
@@ -304,27 +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
-
-* Tue Dec 19 2023 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.2.11-28
-- Additional C compatibility fixes
-
 * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.2.11-27
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild