diff --git a/confluent_server/confluent_server.spec.tmpl b/confluent_server/confluent_server.spec.tmpl
index b0a5df2b..993c6435 100644
--- a/confluent_server/confluent_server.spec.tmpl
+++ b/confluent_server/confluent_server.spec.tmpl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
 Prefix: %{_prefix}
 BuildArch: noarch
 Requires: confluent_vtbufferd
-%if "%{dist} == ".el7"
+%if "%{dist}" == ".el7"
 -Requires: python-pyghmi >= 1.0.34, python-eventlet, python-greenlet, python-pycryptodomex >= 3.4.7, confluent_client == %{version}, python-pyparsing, python-paramiko, python-dnspython, python-netifaces, python2-pyasn1 >= 0.2.3, python-pysnmp >= 4.3.4, python-lxml, python-eficompressor, python-setuptools, python-dateutil, python2-websocket-client python2-msgpack python-libarchive-c python-yaml python-monotonic
 %else
 %if "%{dist}" == ".el8"