diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 4c74d9d949..b81d072af6 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 - name: enable and start pagure-events
   service: name=pagure-events enabled=yes state=started
+  when: not 'pagure-events.service is missing in latest copr-frontend rpm in f28 repos'
 
 - name: copy apache files to conf.d (templates)
   template: src="httpd/{{ item }}" dest="/etc/httpd/conf.d/{{ item }}"