diff --git a/ceph.spec b/ceph.spec
index c73d8e998b5f2e14a5c277813b0ad934446e03d8..dddcffc7beeca8be256cd73c30ab2e6b5ee6b21c 100644
--- a/ceph.spec
+++ b/ceph.spec
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 #################################################################################
 Name:		ceph
 Version:	12.2.8
-Release:	7
+Release:	8
 Epoch:		2
 
 # define _epoch_prefix macro which will expand to the empty string if epoch is
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ BuildRequires:	python2-devel
 BuildRequires:	python-nose
 BuildRequires:	python-requests
 BuildRequires:	python-six
-BuildRequires:	python-virtualenv
 BuildRequires:	snappy-devel
 BuildRequires:	udev
 BuildRequires:	util-linux
@@ -1797,6 +1796,9 @@ exit 0
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Sep 25 2020 wuguanghao <wuguanghao3@huawei.com> - 1:12.2.8-8
+- remove the python-virtualenv package from BuildRequires to solve the compilation problem 
+
 * Mon May 18 2020 wangchen <wangchen137@huawei.com> - 1:12.2.8-7
 - rebuild for ceph