diff --git a/pisi/archive.py b/pisi/archive.py
index 3343f3ac..44f90565 100644
--- a/pisi/archive.py
+++ b/pisi/archive.py
@@ -71,10 +71,11 @@ class ArchiveTar(ArchiveBase):
     type. Provides access to tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.
 
     This class provides the unpack magic for tar archives."""
-    def __init__(self, file_path, arch_type = "tar", no_same_permissions = True):
+    def __init__(self, file_path, arch_type = "tar", no_same_permissions = True, no_same_owner = True):
         super(ArchiveTar, self).__init__(file_path, arch_type)
         self.tar = None
         self.no_same_permissions = no_same_permissions
+        self.no_same_owner = no_same_owner
 
     def unpack(self, target_dir, clean_dir = False):
         """Unpack tar archive to a given target directory(target_dir)."""
@@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ class ArchiveTar(ArchiveBase):
         oldwd = os.getcwd()
         os.chdir(target_dir)
 
+        uid = os.getuid()
+        gid = os.getgid()
+
         install_tar_path = util.join_path(ctx.config.tmp_dir(), ctx.const.install_tar)
         for tarinfo in self.tar:
             # Installing packages (especially shared libraries) is a
@@ -132,6 +136,9 @@ class ArchiveTar(ArchiveBase):
             if self.no_same_permissions and not os.path.islink(tarinfo.name):
                 os.chmod(tarinfo.name, tarinfo.mode & ~ctx.const.umask)
 
+            if self.no_same_owner and not os.path.islink(tarinfo.name):
+                os.chown(tarinfo.name, uid, gid)
+
         os.chdir(oldwd)
         self.close()
 
diff --git a/pisi/package.py b/pisi/package.py
index e6a04155..0f5089ad 100644
--- a/pisi/package.py
+++ b/pisi/package.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class Package:
     def extract_install(self, outdir):
         if self.impl.has_file(ctx.const.install_tar_lzma):
             self.extract_file(ctx.const.install_tar_lzma, ctx.config.tmp_dir())
-            tar = archive.ArchiveTar(join(ctx.config.tmp_dir(), ctx.const.install_tar_lzma), 'tarlzma', False)
+            tar = archive.ArchiveTar(join(ctx.config.tmp_dir(), ctx.const.install_tar_lzma), 'tarlzma', False, False)
             tar.unpack_dir(outdir)
         else:
             self.extract_dir_flat('install', outdir)