diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 75a0cc2c2..432f14b81 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 
-*) 2003-12-20 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
+*) 2003-12-31 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
+
+ - set RPM in the global parse-config to prevent rpm rependencies
+
+*) 2003-12-30 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
 
  - enable apache's mod_deflate
  - cleaned kiss.conf
diff --git a/scripts/parse-config b/scripts/parse-config
index ea7812d76..4ce2d122a 100644
--- a/scripts/parse-config
+++ b/scripts/parse-config
@@ -136,3 +136,6 @@ export NM="${archprefix}nm"	KCC="${archprefix}kcc"
 export F77="${archprefix}f77"	MAKE="make"
 export AWK="gawk"		SED="sed"
 
+# don't use this stuff e.g. in broken configure scripts
+export RPM="/bin/true"
+