diff --git a/pisi/catbox.patch b/pisi/catbox.patch
index 1b3911ee..17f26bc3 100644
--- a/pisi/catbox.patch
+++ b/pisi/catbox.patch
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Index: build.py
 +            import catbox
 +            ret = catbox.run(
 +                self.sandboxed,
-+                ["/var/tmp/pisi", "/tmp", "/dev/tty", "/dev/null"],
++                ["/var/pisi", "/tmp", "/dev/tty", "/dev/null"],
 +                logger = self.sandbox_logger
 +            )
 +            if ret != 0:
diff --git a/pisi/configfile.py b/pisi/configfile.py
index cae6eb56..9418192d 100644
--- a/pisi/configfile.py
+++ b/pisi/configfile.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class DirectoriesDefaults:
     archives_dir = "/var/cache/pisi/archives"
     packages_dir = "/var/cache/pisi/packages"
     index_dir = "/var/lib/pisi/index"
-    tmp_dir =  "/var/tmp/pisi"
+    tmp_dir =  "/var/pisi"
     kde_dir = "/usr/kde/3.5"
     qt_dir = "/usr/qt/3"
 
diff --git a/pisi/util.py b/pisi/util.py
index 7a0d0ca7..7791b09d 100644
--- a/pisi/util.py
+++ b/pisi/util.py
@@ -521,9 +521,8 @@ def strip_directory(top, excludelist=[]):
             extension = os.path.splitext(frpath)[1]
             if extension == ".la":
                 # FIXME: I'm regular expr. idiot, so one can convert this to python...
-                os.system("sed -i -e 's~-L/var/tmp/pisi/[[:graph:]]*~~g' %s" % frpath)
-                os.system("sed -i -e 's~/var/tmp/pisi/[[:graph:]]*/install/~/~g' %s" % frpath)
-
+                os.system("sed -i -e 's~-L%s/[[:graph:]]*~~g' %s" % (ctx.config.tmp_dir(), frpath))
+                os.system("sed -i -e 's~%s/[[:graph:]]*/install/~/~g' %s" % (ctx.config.tmp_dir(), frpath))
             # real path in .pisi package
             p = '/' + removepathprefix(top, frpath)
             strip = True