diff --git a/mono-core.spec b/mono-core.spec
index 93d4c008b7..5086eefd7c 100644
--- a/mono-core.spec
+++ b/mono-core.spec
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ License:        LGPL-2.1 and MIT and MS-PL
 Group:          Development/Languages/Mono
 Url:            http://www.mono-project.com
 Source0:        http://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch0:		provides-facades.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  bison
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ technologies that have been submitted to the ECMA for standardization.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n mono-%{__majorver}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 ./autogen.sh
diff --git a/provides-facades.patch b/provides-facades.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba1a8d0c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/provides-facades.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff --git a/external/linker b/external/linker
+--- a/external/linker
++++ b/external/linker
+@@ -1 +1 @@
+-Subproject commit e4d9784ac37b9ebf4757175c92bc7a3ec9fd867a
++Subproject commit e4d9784ac37b9ebf4757175c92bc7a3ec9fd867a-dirty
+diff --git a/scripts/mono-find-provides.in b/scripts/mono-find-provides.in
+index 5b2e206..5d6f34c 100644
+--- a/scripts/mono-find-provides.in
++++ b/scripts/mono-find-provides.in
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ monolist=($(printf "%s\n" "${filelist[@]}" | egrep "\\.(exe|dll)\$"))
+ 
+ # Only include files with /gac/ in path
+ #  (Allows packages to contain private assemblies that don't conflict with other packages)
+-monolist=($(printf "%s\n" "${monolist[@]}" | egrep "/gac/"))
++monolist=($(printf "%s\n" "${monolist[@]}" | egrep "/(gac|Facades|4\\.5)/"))
+ # Disabled... see ChangeLog
+ 
+ # Set the prefix, unless it is overriden (used when building mono rpms)