diff --git a/policycoreutils.spec b/policycoreutils.spec
index cde521b..4d32af6 100644
--- a/policycoreutils.spec
+++ b/policycoreutils.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 Summary: SELinux policy core utilities
 Name:	 policycoreutils
 Version: 2.6
-Release: 1.1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 Group:	 System Environment/Base
 # https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Releases
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Provides: /sbin/restorecon
 
 BuildRequires:	pam-devel libcgroup-devel libsepol-static >= %{libsepolver} libsemanage-static >= %{libsemanagever} libselinux-devel >= %{libselinuxver}  libcap-devel audit-libs-devel >=  %{libauditver} gettext
 BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils dbus-devel dbus-glib-devel
-BuildRequires: python python-devel python3 python3-devel
+BuildRequires: python-devel python3-devel
 BuildRequires: systemd
 Requires: util-linux grep gawk diffutils rpm sed
 Requires: libsepol >= %{libsepolver} coreutils libselinux-utils >=  %{libselinuxver}
@@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8
 %{__mkdir} -p %{buildroot}/%{_usr}/share/doc/%{name}/
 
 make -C policycoreutils-%{version} LSPP_PRIV=y  DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" install
-make -C policycoreutils-%{version} PYTHON=python3 LSPP_PRIV=y  DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" install
+make -C policycoreutils-%{version} PYTHON=%{__python3} LSPP_PRIV=y  DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" install
 
 # Systemd
 rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/restorecond
 
 make -C sepolgen-%{version} DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" install
-make -C sepolgen-%{version} PYTHON=python3 DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" install
+make -C sepolgen-%{version} PYTHON=%{__python3} DESTDIR="%{buildroot}" SBINDIR="%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{buildroot}%{_libdir}" install
 
 tar -jxf %{SOURCE2} -C %{buildroot}/
 rm -f %{buildroot}/usr/share/man/ru/man8/genhomedircon.8.gz
@@ -137,12 +137,12 @@ ln -s ../selinux-autorelabel-mark.service %{buildroot}/%{_unitdir}/basic.target.
 find %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib} %{buildroot}%{python_sitearch} -type f | xargs \
 	sed -i '1s%\(#! */usr/bin/python\)3%\1%'
 
-# change /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3 in policycoreutils-python3
+# change /usr/bin/python to %{__python3} in policycoreutils-python3
 find %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib} %{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch} -type f | xargs \
-	sed -i '1s%\(#! */usr/bin/python\)\([^3].*\|\)$%\13\2%'
+	sed -i '1s%\(#! *\)/usr/bin/python\([^3].*\|\)$%\1%{__python3}\2%'
 
 # change /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3 in python-utils
-sed -i '1s%\(#! */usr/bin/python\)\([^3].*\|\)$%\13\2%' \
+sed -i '1s%\(#! *\)/usr/bin/python\([^3].*\|\)$%\1%{__python3}\2%' \
 	%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/semanage \
 	%{buildroot}%{_bindir}/chcat \
 	%{buildroot}%{_bindir}/sandbox \
@@ -445,6 +445,9 @@ The policycoreutils-restorecond package contains the restorecond service.
 %systemd_postun_with_restart restorecond.service
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 23 2017 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> - 2.6-2
+- Use %{__python3} instead of python3
+
 * Mon Feb 20 2017 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> - 2.6-1.1
 - Fix pp crash when processing base module (#1417200)
 - Update to upstream release 2016-10-14