diff --git a/0001-macros-remove-Cargo.lock.patch b/0001-macros-remove-Cargo.lock.patch
index 435710c..eac95b4 100644
--- a/0001-macros-remove-Cargo.lock.patch
+++ b/0001-macros-remove-Cargo.lock.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 From 5313b352712486b4001827b04d906bdb91be2314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org>
 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:57:03 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH 1/2] macros: remove Cargo.lock
+Subject: [PATCH 1/3] macros: remove Cargo.lock
 
 cargo-package automatically strips it out, but we package also some
 things directly from git.
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ index ebf3edb..288554c 100644
  # https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3732 \
  %{__awk} -i inplace -v INPLACE_SUFFIX=.orig '/^\\\[dev-dependencies/{f=1;next} /^\\\[/{f=0}; !f' Cargo.toml \
 -- 
-2.15.1
+2.16.2
 
diff --git a/0002-macros-remove-spurious-whitespace.patch b/0002-macros-remove-spurious-whitespace.patch
index 522e2b0..2033124 100644
--- a/0002-macros-remove-spurious-whitespace.patch
+++ b/0002-macros-remove-spurious-whitespace.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 From cd6329635329fc7742a18f7ed0933298a0c56cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org>
 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 06:52:36 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH 2/2] macros: remove spurious whitespace
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] macros: remove spurious whitespace
 
 Fixes: https://pagure.io/fedora-rust/rust2rpm/issue/48
 Reported-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ index 288554c..67b1950 100644
  %if ! %{with check} \
  # https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3732 \
 -- 
-2.15.1
+2.16.2
 
diff --git a/0003-macros-pass-__cargo_common_opts-to-cargo_install.patch b/0003-macros-pass-__cargo_common_opts-to-cargo_install.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f719a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0003-macros-pass-__cargo_common_opts-to-cargo_install.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From c5bab762f56bf07cd0f4a2e2d58b7c295cddedd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org>
+Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:04:35 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] macros: pass %__cargo_common_opts to %cargo_install
+
+Reason this has not been done before is that cargo-install doesn't
+understand --release. Let's just add it to other commands and be done
+with it.
+
+Reported-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org>
+---
+ data/macros.cargo | 8 ++++----
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/macros.cargo b/data/macros.cargo
+index 67b1950..22721e9 100644
+--- a/data/macros.cargo
++++ b/data/macros.cargo
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ %__cargo %{_bindir}/cargo
+-%__cargo_common_opts --release %{?_smp_mflags}
++%__cargo_common_opts %{?_smp_mflags}
+ %__cargo_inspector %{_bindir}/cargo-inspector
+ 
+ %cargo_registry %{_datadir}/cargo/registry
+@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ EOF\
+ %endif \
+ )
+ 
+-%cargo_build %__cargo build %{__cargo_common_opts}
++%cargo_build %__cargo build --release %{__cargo_common_opts}
+ 
+-%cargo_test %__cargo test %{__cargo_common_opts} --no-fail-fast
++%cargo_test %__cargo test --release %{__cargo_common_opts} --no-fail-fast
+ 
+ %cargo_install (\
+ set -eu                                                                   \
+@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ if %__cargo_is_lib; then                                                  \
+   echo '{"files":{},"package":""}' > $REG_DIR/.cargo-checksum.json        \
+ fi \
+ if %__cargo_is_bin; then                                                  \
+-  %__cargo install %{?_smp_mflags} --path . --root %{buildroot}%{_prefix} \
++  %__cargo install %{__cargo_common_opts} --path . --root %{buildroot}%{_prefix} \
+   %{__rm} %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/.crates.toml                             \
+ fi \
+ )
+-- 
+2.16.2
+
diff --git a/rust-packaging.spec b/rust-packaging.spec
index 1d5bfbc..f6ce2e1 100644
--- a/rust-packaging.spec
+++ b/rust-packaging.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:           rust-packaging
 Version:        5
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Release:        6%{?dist}
 Summary:        RPM macros for building Rust packages on various architectures
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ URL:            https://pagure.io/fedora-rust/rust2rpm
 Source0:        https://releases.pagure.org/fedora-rust/rust2rpm/rust2rpm-%{version}.tar.xz
 Patch0001:      0001-macros-remove-Cargo.lock.patch
 Patch0002:      0002-macros-remove-spurious-whitespace.patch
+Patch0003:      0003-macros-pass-__cargo_common_opts-to-cargo_install.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches} noarch
@@ -41,9 +42,6 @@ Requires:       python3-semantic_version
 Requires:       python3-jinja2
 Requires:       python3-requests
 Requires:       python3-tqdm
-%if 0%{?mageia}
-Requires:       locales-en
-%endif
 Obsoletes:      rust2rpm < 1-8
 Provides:       rust2rpm = %{version}-%{release}
 %{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-rust2rpm}
@@ -53,15 +51,6 @@ Provides:       rust2rpm = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -n rust2rpm-%{version} -p1
-lang=
-%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} <= 7
-lang=C.UTF-8
-%else
-%if 0%{?mageia}
-lang=en_US.UTF-8
-%endif
-%endif
-[ -z "$lang" ] || sed -r -i -e "s|(%\{_bindir\}/cargo-inspector)|env LANG=$lang \1|" data/cargo.attr data/macros.cargo
 
 %build
 %py3_build
@@ -89,6 +78,9 @@ py.test-%{python3_version} -vv test.py
 %{python3_sitelib}/rust2rpm/
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Feb 21 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 5-6
+- Pass %%__cargo_common_opts to %%cargo_install
+
 * Tue Feb 20 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 5-5
 - Explicitly require rust/cargo