diff --git a/rpm-5.4.10-fix-egg-info-provides.patch b/rpm-5.4.10-fix-egg-info-provides.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2361215
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpm-5.4.10-fix-egg-info-provides.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -urN rpm-5.4.10-orig/lib/rpmfc.c rpm-5.4.10-patched/lib/rpmfc.c
+--- rpm-5.4.10-orig/lib/rpmfc.c	2018-06-21 16:46:02.416087354 +1000
++++ rpm-5.4.10-patched/lib/rpmfc.c	2018-06-21 16:54:06.839041871 +1000
+@@ -1468,6 +1468,16 @@
+ 	    else if (_suffix(s, "qmldir"))
+ 		ftype = "qml file";
+ 
++	    /* XXX all files with extension ".egg" are ASCII text for now. */
++	    /* XXX python code examples from them give false Python script result. */
++	    else if (_suffix(s, ".egg"))
++		ftype = "ASCII text";
++
++	    /* XXX all files with extension ".egg-info" are ASCII text for now. */
++	    /* XXX python code examples from them give false Python script result. */
++	    else if (_suffix(s, ".egg-info"))
++		ftype = "ASCII text";
++
+ 	    /* XXX all files with extension ".php" are PHP for now. */
+ 	    else if (_suffix(s, ".php"))
+ 		ftype = "PHP script text";
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index bc23129..4d3529c 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Summary:	The RPM package management system
 Name:		rpm
 Epoch:		1
 Version:	%{libver}.%{minorver}
-Release:	%{?prereldate:0.%{prereldate}.}78
+Release:	%{?prereldate:0.%{prereldate}.}79
 License:	LGPLv2.1+
 Group:		System/Configuration/Packaging
 Url:		http://rpm5.org/
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ Patch516:	rpm-5.4.10-appdatadir.patch
 # Add QML dependency generator
 Patch517:	rpm-5.4.10-qml-dependency-generator.patch
 
+# Always detect Python egg-info files as text for pythonegg(xxx) Provides generation
+Patch518:	rpm-5.4.10-fix-egg-info-provides.patch
+
 BuildRequires:	autoconf >= 2.57
 BuildRequires:	bzip2-devel
 BuildRequires:	automake >= 1.8
@@ -1186,6 +1189,7 @@ This package contains the RPM API documentation generated in HTML format.
 %patch515 -p1 -b .fix-addsign-check
 %patch516 -p1 -b .appdatadir~
 %patch517 -p1 -b .qmldeps~
+%patch518 -p1 -b .egg-info~
 
 #required by P55, P80, P81, P94..
 ./autogen.sh