diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 00dbd2e8..0917111d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2009-02-13 Bahadır Kandemir <bahadir@pardus.org.tr>
+        * Merged Python 2.6 patch
+
 2009-02-13 Faik Uygur <faik@pardus.org.tr>
         * pisi-2.1.2
 
diff --git a/pisi/archive.py b/pisi/archive.py
index 3607fba9..086dc4df 100644
--- a/pisi/archive.py
+++ b/pisi/archive.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ import tarfile
 import zipfile
 import gzip
 import struct
+import sys
+import distutils.version
 
 import gettext
 __trans = gettext.translation('pisi', fallback=True)
@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ class ArchiveTar(ArchiveBase):
     def close(self):
         self.tar.close()
 
-        if self.tar.mode == 'wb' and self.type == 'tarlzma':
+        if 'w' in str(self.tar.mode) and self.type == 'tarlzma':
             batch = None
             if ctx.config.values.build.compressionlevel:
                 batch = "lzma -%s -z %s" % (ctx.config.values.build.compressionlevel, self.file_path)
@@ -414,7 +416,12 @@ class ArchiveZip(ArchiveBase):
                     perm &= 0x08FF0000
                     perm >>= 16
                     perm |= 0x00000100
-                    zip_obj.decompressToFile(info.filename, ofile)
+
+                    version = sys.version.split()[0]
+                    if distutils.version.StrictVersion(version) < distutils.version.StrictVersion("2.6.0"):
+                        zip_obj.decompressToFile(info.filename, ofile)
+                    else:
+                        zip_obj.extract(info.filename, target_dir)
                     os.chmod(ofile, perm)
 
     def unpack_files(self, paths, target_dir):
diff --git a/python-2.6.patch b/python-2.6.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e03823f..00000000
--- a/python-2.6.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-Index: pisi/archive.py
-===================================================================
---- pisi/archive.py	(revision 21417)
-+++ pisi/archive.py	(working copy)
-@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
- import zipfile
- import gzip
- import struct
-+import sys
-+import distutils.version
- 
- import gettext
- __trans = gettext.translation('pisi', fallback=True)
-@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@
-     def close(self):
-         self.tar.close()
- 
--        if self.tar.mode == 'wb' and self.type == 'tarlzma':
-+        if 'w' in str(self.tar.mode) and self.type == 'tarlzma':
-             batch = None
-             if ctx.config.values.build.compressionlevel:
-                 batch = "lzma -%s -z %s" % (ctx.config.values.build.compressionlevel, self.file_path)
-@@ -414,7 +416,12 @@
-                     perm &= 0x08FF0000
-                     perm >>= 16
-                     perm |= 0x00000100
--                    zip_obj.decompressToFile(info.filename, ofile)
-+
-+                    version = sys.version.split()[0]
-+                    if distutils.version.StrictVersion(version) < distutils.version.StrictVersion("2.6.0"):
-+                        zip_obj.decompressToFile(info.filename, ofile)
-+                    else:
-+                        zip_obj.extract(info.filename, target_dir)
-                     os.chmod(ofile, perm)
- 
-     def unpack_files(self, paths, target_dir):