diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
index 401bc41..ac46217 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist_rpm' command (create RPM source and binary
 distributions)."""
 
-import sys, os
+import subprocess, sys, os
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils.debug import DEBUG
 from distutils.util import get_platform
@@ -406,6 +406,21 @@
             'Summary: ' + self.distribution.get_description(),
             ]
 
+        # Workaround for #14443 which affects some RPM based systems such as
+        # RHEL6 (and probably derivatives)
+        vendor_hook = subprocess.getoutput('rpm --eval %{__os_install_post}')
+        # Generate a potential replacement value for __os_install_post (whilst
+        # normalizing the whitespace to simplify the test for whether the
+        # invocation of brp-python-bytecompile passes in __python):
+        vendor_hook = '\n'.join(['  %s \\' % line.strip()
+                                 for line in vendor_hook.splitlines()])
+        problem = "brp-python-bytecompile \\\n"
+        fixed = "brp-python-bytecompile %{__python} \\\n"
+        fixed_hook = vendor_hook.replace(problem, fixed)
+        if fixed_hook != vendor_hook:
+            spec_file.append('# Workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue14443')
+            spec_file.append('%define __os_install_post ' + fixed_hook + '\n')
+
         # put locale summaries into spec file
         # XXX not supported for now (hard to put a dictionary
         # in a config file -- arg!)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 95f66d7..27ece4d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1138,6 +1138,9 @@
 - Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
   of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
 
+- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
+  executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
+
 Extension Modules
 -----------------