diff --git a/pisi/archive.py b/pisi/archive.py
index 329f0933..6e7ddd12 100644
--- a/pisi/archive.py
+++ b/pisi/archive.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class ArchiveBase(object):
 class ArchiveBinary(ArchiveBase):
     """ArchiveBinary handles binary archive files (usually distrubuted as
     .bin files)"""
-    def __init__(self, file_path, arch_type = "tar"):
+    def __init__(self, file_path, arch_type = "binary"):
         super(ArchiveBinary, self).__init__(file_path, arch_type)
 
     def unpack(self, target_dir, clean_dir = False):
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class ArchiveBinary(ArchiveBase):
         # we can't unpack .bin files. we'll just move them to target
         # directory and leave the dirty job to actions.py ;)
         import shutil
-        target_file = os.path.join(target_dir, self.file_path)
+        target_file = os.path.join(target_dir, os.path.basename(self.file_path))
         shutil.copyfile(self.file_path, target_file)