diff --git a/Sanity/bz966964-json-c-upstream-tests/runtest.sh b/Sanity/bz966964-json-c-upstream-tests/runtest.sh
index b4c142f..81a4592 100755
--- a/Sanity/bz966964-json-c-upstream-tests/runtest.sh
+++ b/Sanity/bz966964-json-c-upstream-tests/runtest.sh
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ rlJournalStart
         # this was not stable enough, e.g. instead of json-c-json-c-1.1.1-20100101 there was json-c-libjson.c.so.6-1.1.1.-20100101
         # rlRun "pushd BUILD/json-c-`rpm -q --qf "%{P}-%{VERSION}-$DATE" json-c`" 0
         # but we will assume that there is only one directory
-        rlRun "pushd BUILD/json-c-*" 0
+        # the SPECPARTS dir occured, so it has to be filtered
+        rlRun "pushd BUILD/$(ls ./BUILD/ | grep -v 'SPECPARTS')" 0
         rlRun "make check |& tee $TmpDir/make_check.out" 0
         rlRun "popd"
         if rlIsRHEL 6 ; then