diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 0453ea29d..df2776fee 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -460,8 +460,8 @@ fi
 
 echo "Checking if Salt was upgraded."
 echo ""
-# Check that Salt was upgraded, should be 3 'salt' packages on a manager node. salt-minion, salt-master and salt or salt-common depending on Ubuntu or CentOS. we could add salt-syndic in the future so checking that there are at least 3 packages
-if [[ `rpm -qa | grep salt | grep $NEWSALTVERSION | wc -l` < 3 ]]; then
+# Check that Salt was upgraded
+if [[ `salt --versions-report | grep Salt: | awk {'print $2'}` == "$NEWSALTVERSION" ]]; then
   echo "Salt upgrade failed. Check of indicators of failure in $SOUP_LOG."
   echo "Once the issue is resolved, run soup again."
   echo "Exiting."