diff --git a/releases/2008.0/ChangeLog b/releases/2008.0/ChangeLog
index 4a1f8794..701d9678 100644
--- a/releases/2008.0/ChangeLog
+++ b/releases/2008.0/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  20 Feb 2008; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+  specs/ppc/ppc64/stage1-32ul.spec:
+  We need to set CHOST when it differs from the default one used by catalyst
+  for a given subarch.
+
   15 Feb 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>
   specs/x86/i686/livedvd-stage1.spec:
   Comment out net-ftp/ncftp for i686 livedvd due to compile failure (bug #146214)
diff --git a/releases/2008.0/specs/ppc/ppc64/stage1-32ul.spec b/releases/2008.0/specs/ppc/ppc64/stage1-32ul.spec
index 44839f97..7ddbf5f7 100644
--- a/releases/2008.0/specs/ppc/ppc64/stage1-32ul.spec
+++ b/releases/2008.0/specs/ppc/ppc64/stage1-32ul.spec
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ rel_type: default
 profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/2008.0/32bit-userland
 snapshot: 2008.0
 source_subpath: default/stage3-ppc64-32ul-2007.0
+chost: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu