diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/builder.sh b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b16223a349..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-export destdir=$out
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/default.nix
index 5a5b0006f97..eec1ec5342c 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, gettext}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "eject-2.1.0";
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  name = "eject-2.1.5";
+  #builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/eject-2.1.0.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "82e3a7a4d7e3323018c6938015ff25f7";
+    url = http://ca.geocities.com/jefftranter@rogers.com/eject-2.1.5.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0mgy5wp40rsalfkxs6mvsg3s7yaqf2iq49iv4axf9zac9037k7zg";
   };
   buildInputs = [gettext];
-  NIX_DEBUG=1;
-  patches = [./eject-destdir.patch];
+  preBuild = "
+    makeFlagsArray=(PREFIX=$out)
+  ";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/eject-destdir.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/eject-destdir.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 85abc097fbe..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/eject/eject-destdir.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff -ruN eject-2.1.0/Makefile.in eject-2.1.0.new/Makefile.in
---- eject-2.1.0/Makefile.in	2002-12-09 23:38:08.000000000 +0100
-+++ eject-2.1.0.new/Makefile.in	2005-09-01 18:36:41.000000000 +0200
-@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
- eject_SOURCES = eject.c
- volname_SOURCES = volname.c
- 
--SUBDIRS = po
-+#SUBDIRS = po
- 
- AM_CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/src/linux -I/usr/src/linux/include -DDEFAULTDEVICE=\"$(DEFAULTDEVICE)\" -DGETOPTLONG
- AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -O3 $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS)
-diff -ruN eject-2.1.0/po/Makefile eject-2.1.0.new/po/Makefile
---- eject-2.1.0/po/Makefile	2005-05-01 20:41:17.000000000 +0200
-+++ eject-2.1.0.new/po/Makefile	2005-09-01 18:27:43.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- PKGNAME=eject
--PREFIX=$(DESTDIR)/usr
-+PREFIX=$(prefix)/usr
- INSTALL = install
- MODIR = $(PREFIX)/share/locale
- POTFILES = ../*.c ../*.h