diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index 71a0bc3421..994c1b6215 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ contrib/pig/example-script.pig
 contrib/redhat/cassandra
 **/cassandra.yaml
 **/*.db
+redhat/apache-cassandra.spec