diff --git a/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/default.nix
index e8bf832a15c..bb56e63c40e 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , lib
 , fakeroot
 , fetchurl
+, fetchpatch
 , libfaketime
 , substituteAll
 ## runtime dependencies
@@ -68,7 +69,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     inherit sha256;
   };
   patches = [
-    ./libtiff-4.2.patch  # adjust configure check to work with libtiff > 4.1
+    # adjust configure check to work with libtiff > 4.1
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "libtiff-4.2.patch";
+      url = "https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/net-misc/hylafaxplus/files/hylafaxplus-7.0.2-tiff-4.2.patch?id=82e3eefd5447f36e5bb00068a54b91d8c891ccf6";
+      sha256 = "0hhf4wpgj842gz4nxq8s55vnzmciqkyjjaaxdpqawns2746vx0sw";
+    })
   ];
   # Note that `configure` (and maybe `faxsetup`) are looking
   # for a couple of standard binaries in the `PATH` and
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/libtiff-4.2.patch b/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/libtiff-4.2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5da106565f0..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/hylafaxplus/libtiff-4.2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/configure b/configure
-index 7456dcb..90f0e8d 100755
---- a/configure
-+++ b/configure
-@@ -2583,7 +2583,7 @@ EOF
- 				echo '#define TIFFSTRIPBYTECOUNTS uint32'
- 				echo '#define TIFFVERSION TIFF_VERSION'
- 				echo '#define TIFFHEADER TIFFHeader';;
--		4.[01])		tiff_runlen_t="uint32"
-+		4.[012])	tiff_runlen_t="uint32"
- 				tiff_offset_t="uint64"
- 				echo '#define TIFFSTRIPBYTECOUNTS uint64'
- 				echo '#define TIFFVERSION TIFF_VERSION_CLASSIC'