diff --git a/src/eray_mail_oku b/src/eray_mail_oku
deleted file mode 100644
index 6994d2d3..00000000
--- a/src/eray_mail_oku
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Pazartesi 13 Haziran 2005 14:05 tarihinde, svn-internal@uludag.org.tr şunları
-yazmıştı: 
-> * start a generalized ui module which will abstract the
->   particulars of CLI, KDE, etc. (Beginning with CLI)
-
-Eray, ui modülünü commit etmeyi unutmuşsun sanırım.
diff --git a/src/pisi/archive.py b/src/pisi/archive.py
index 4120d255..dd89efba 100644
--- a/src/pisi/archive.py
+++ b/src/pisi/archive.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # utilities to extract and build archives of zip, tar, targz, tarbz2
-# maintainer: baris and murat
+# maintainer: baris and meren
 
diff --git a/src/pisi/install.py b/src/pisi/install.py
index c4f4f04e..155f7526 100644
--- a/src/pisi/install.py
+++ b/src/pisi/install.py
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ import dependency
 
 def install_package_file(package_fn):
     
-    package = Package(package_fn, "r")
+    package = Package(package_fn, 'r')
     # extract control files
     util.clean_directory(install_dir)
-    ui.info.("extracting files\n")
+    ui.info.('extracting files\n')
     package.extract_files(install_dir)
 
     # verify package
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def install_package_file(package_fn):
     # unzip package in place
 
     # update databases
-    installdb.install(spec.install_dir + '/files.xml')
 
     # installdb
+    installdb.install(spec.spec.install_dir + '/files.xml')
     
diff --git a/src/pisi/specfile.py b/src/pisi/specfile.py
index 2621742f..cbcd305e 100644
--- a/src/pisi/specfile.py
+++ b/src/pisi/specfile.py
@@ -68,3 +68,13 @@ class SpecFile(XmlFile):
     def write(self, filename):
         """Write PSPEC file"""
         self.writexml(filename)
+
+class MetaData(SpecFile):
+    """This is a superset of the source spec definition"""
+
+    def read(self, filename):
+        SpecFile.read(filename)
+	distribution = self.getNodeText("Source/Distribution")
+	distributionRelease = self.getNodeText("Source/DistributionRelease")
+	architecture = self.getNodeText("Source/Architecture")
+	installsize = self.getNodeText("Source/InstallSize")
diff --git a/src/pisi/ui.py b/src/pisi/ui.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9eb6ec0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pisi/ui.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# generic user interface
+
+import sys
+
+# put the interface directly in the module
+# since the UI is _unique_
+
+def register(_impl):
+    """ Register a UI implementation"""
+    impl = _impl
+
+def info(msg):
+    impl.info(msg)
+
+# default UI implementation
+class CLI:
+    def info(self, msg):
+        sys.stdout.write(msg)
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+
+# default UI is CLI
+impl = CLI()
+