diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/default.nix
index 8c5896561fc..8154816ab86 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, udev }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "dhcpcd-6.6.7";
+  name = "dhcpcd-6.8.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://roy/dhcpcd/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1aydp26xsn9y6acg5zmcz6pp6parywnmhcvp9ipf54vbac53mya3";
+    sha256 = "0h52rkzw87fyq5vj8zscbgf0ig9c881xz7i0rn3hvk28li7la0cb";
   };
 
-  patches = [ /* ./lxc_ro_promote_secondaries.patch */ ];
-
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig udev ];
 
-  configureFlags = "--sysconfdir=/etc";
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--sysconfdir=/etc"
+    "--localstatedir=/var"
+  ];
 
   makeFlags = "PREFIX=\${out}";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/lxc_ro_promote_secondaries.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/lxc_ro_promote_secondaries.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 066ea67db9e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/dhcpcd/lxc_ro_promote_secondaries.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -rupN dhcpcd-6.1.0-old/if-linux.c dhcpcd-6.1.0/if-linux.c
---- dhcpcd-6.1.0-old/if-linux.c	2013-09-20 12:27:24.000000000 +0200
-+++ dhcpcd-6.1.0/if-linux.c	2013-12-13 09:50:24.183694744 +0100
-@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ if_init(struct interface *iface)
- 
- 	fp = fopen(path, "w");
- 	if (fp == NULL)
--		return errno == ENOENT ? 0 : -1;
-+		return (errno == ENOENT || errno == EROFS) ? 0 : -1;
- 	n = fprintf(fp, "1");
- 	fclose(fp);
- 	return n == -1 ? -1 : 0;