diff --git a/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec b/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
index 983c755be..255342b01 100644
--- a/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
+++ b/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 %global wpa_supplicant_version 1:1.1
 
-%global ppp_version %(sed -n 's/^#define\\s*VERSION\\s*"\\([^\\s]*\\)"$/\\1/p' %{_includedir}/pppd/patchlevel.h 2>/dev/null | grep . || echo bad)
+%global ppp_version %(pkg-config --modversion pppd 2>/dev/null || sed -n 's/^#define\\s*VERSION\\s*"\\([^\\s]*\\)"$/\\1/p' %{_includedir}/pppd/patchlevel.h 2>/dev/null | grep . || echo bad)
 %global glib2_version %(pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 2>/dev/null || echo bad)
 
 %global epoch_version 1