diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 29f92bc9..8af150bf 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 * Mon Jun 11 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
 - Add a install target to make (Trac #37)
 - Enable the source repo in yum configs (Trac #47)
+- Use universal newlines in getting process output (Trac #44)
 
 * Fri May 25 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
 - Handle the cdsize variable correctly
diff --git a/pypungi/pungi.py b/pypungi/pungi.py
index b4bdfc87..ec58c079 100755
--- a/pypungi/pungi.py
+++ b/pypungi/pungi.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class Pungi:
 
         log.info("Running %s" % ' '.join(command))
 
-        p1 = subprocess.Popen(command, cwd=rundir, stdout=output, stderr=error)
+        p1 = subprocess.Popen(command, cwd=rundir, stdout=output, stderr=error, universal_newlines=True)
         (out, err) = p1.communicate()
         if p1.returncode != 0:
             log.error("Got an error from %s" % command[0])
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class Pungi:
                     try:
                         p1 = subprocess.Popen(rpm2cpio + extraargs, cwd=docsdir, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
                         (out, err) = subprocess.Popen(cpio, cwd=docsdir, stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
-                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
+                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True).communicate()
                     except:
                         log.error("Got an error from rpm2cpio")
                         log.error(err)