diff --git a/pisi/atomicoperations.py b/pisi/atomicoperations.py
index 49bffe20..bc3bfdd5 100644
--- a/pisi/atomicoperations.py
+++ b/pisi/atomicoperations.py
@@ -502,17 +502,17 @@ class Install(AtomicOperation):
             util.clean_dir(self.old_path)
 
         ctx.ui.info(_('Storing %s') % ctx.const.files_xml, verbose=True)
-        self.package.extract_file(ctx.const.files_xml, self.package.pkg_dir())
+        self.package.extract_file_synced(ctx.const.files_xml, self.package.pkg_dir())
 
         ctx.ui.info(_('Storing %s') % ctx.const.metadata_xml, verbose=True)
-        self.package.extract_file(ctx.const.metadata_xml, self.package.pkg_dir())
+        self.package.extract_file_synced(ctx.const.metadata_xml, self.package.pkg_dir())
 
         for pcomar in self.metadata.package.providesComar:
             fpath = os.path.join(ctx.const.comar_dir, pcomar.script)
             # comar prefix is added to the pkg_dir while extracting comar
             # script file. so we'll use pkg_dir as destination.
             ctx.ui.info(_('Storing %s') % fpath, verbose=True)
-            self.package.extract_file(fpath, self.package.pkg_dir())
+            self.package.extract_file_synced(fpath, self.package.pkg_dir())
 
     def update_databases(self):
         "update databases"
diff --git a/pisi/package.py b/pisi/package.py
index 7121e884..366cf543 100644
--- a/pisi/package.py
+++ b/pisi/package.py
@@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ class Package:
         """Extract file with path to outdir"""
         self.extract_files([path], outdir)
 
+    def extract_file_synced(self, path, outdir):
+        """Extract file with path to outdir"""
+        data = self.impl.read_file(path)
+        fpath = util.join_path(outdir, path)
+        util.check_dir(os.path.dirname(fpath))
+
+        with open(fpath, "wb") as f:
+            f.write(data)
+            f.flush()
+            os.fsync(f.fileno())
+
     def extract_dir(self, dir, outdir):
         """Extract directory recursively, this function
         copies the directory archiveroot/dir to outdir"""