diff --git a/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/0001-Revert-Make-Akonadi-installation-properly-relocatabl.patch b/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/0001-Revert-Make-Akonadi-installation-properly-relocatabl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1b5e12c7ec32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/0001-Revert-Make-Akonadi-installation-properly-relocatabl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From bc018b4bc816a3b51deb9739bedbf8a2268d0684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: gnidorah <gnidorah@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:36:03 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Make Akonadi installation properly relocatable"
+
+This reverts commit b2bb55f13f2ac783f89cc414de8c39f62fa2096a.
+---
+ CMakeLists.txt            | 3 ---
+ KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in | 6 +++---
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 9788bea94..15bad00fd 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -285,9 +285,6 @@ configure_package_config_file(
+     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in"
+     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake"
+     INSTALL_DESTINATION ${CMAKECONFIG_INSTALL_DIR}
+-    PATH_VARS AKONADI_DBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR
+-              AKONADI_INCLUDE_DIR
+-              KF5Akonadi_DATA_DIR
+ )
+ 
+ install(FILES
+diff --git a/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in b/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in
+index 75abede50..10f039376 100644
+--- a/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in
++++ b/KF5AkonadiConfig.cmake.in
+@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ find_dependency(KF5ConfigWidgets "@KF5_VERSION@")
+ find_dependency(Qt5DBus "@QT_REQUIRED_VERSION@")
+ find_dependency(Qt5Network "@QT_REQUIRED_VERSION@")
+ 
+-set_and_check(AKONADI_DBUS_INTERFACES_DIR  "@PACKAGE_AKONADI_DBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR@")
+-set_and_check(AKONADI_INCLUDE_DIR          "@PACKAGE_AKONADI_INCLUDE_DIR@")
++set_and_check(AKONADI_DBUS_INTERFACES_DIR  "@AKONADI_DBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR@")
++set_and_check(AKONADI_INCLUDE_DIR          "@AKONADI_INCLUDE_DIR@")
+ 
+ find_dependency(Boost "@Boost_MINIMUM_VERSION@")
+ 
+@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/KF5AkonadiTargets.cmake)
+ include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/KF5AkonadiMacros.cmake)
+ 
+ # The directory where akonadi-xml.xsd and kcfg2dbus.xsl are installed
+-set(KF5Akonadi_DATA_DIR "@PACKAGE_KF5Akonadi_DATA_DIR@")
++set(KF5Akonadi_DATA_DIR "@KF5Akonadi_DATA_DIR@")
+-- 
+2.15.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/series b/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/series
index 9e067f0a0008..f828d503cc77 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/series
+++ b/pkgs/applications/kde/akonadi/series
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 akonadi-paths.patch
 akonadi-timestamps.patch
+0001-Revert-Make-Akonadi-installation-properly-relocatabl.patch