diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/default.nix
index 9f1c3ecf8bcb..81210490883f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{stdenv, fetchurl, bzip2}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "bsdiff-4.2";
+  name = "bsdiff-4.3";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.2.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "9f582a77eb76d116d82d1ad268ef48fa";
+    url = http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.3.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0j2zm3z271x5aw63mwhr3vymzn45p2vvrlrpm9cz2nywna41b0hq";
   };
-  patches = [./makefile.patch];
+  buildInputs = [ bzip2 ];
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed 's/^\.//g' -i Makefile
+  '';
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/makefile.patch b/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/makefile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 94a4048631c3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/bsdiff/makefile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff -rc bsdiff-orig/Makefile bsdiff-4.2/Makefile
-*** bsdiff-orig/Makefile	2004-07-11 20:10:02.000000000 +0200
---- bsdiff-4.2/Makefile	2004-11-29 22:15:05.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 1,7 ****
-  CFLAGS		+=	-O3
-- .ifdef BZIP2
-- CFLAGS		+=	-DBZIP2=\"${BZIP2}\"
-- .endif
-  
-  PREFIX		?=	/usr/local
-  INSTALL_PROGRAM	?=	${INSTALL} -c -s -m 555
---- 1,4 ----
-***************
-*** 13,18 ****
-  
-  install:
-  	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} bsdiff bspatch ${PREFIX}/bin
-- .ifndef WITHOUT_MAN
-  	${INSTALL_MAN} bsdiff.1 bspatch.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
-- .endif
---- 10,13 ----
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 272d829f1931..5c4d24f99954 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ let
   };
 
   bsdiff = import ../tools/compression/bsdiff {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv bzip2;
   };
 
   bzip2 = useFromStdenv "bzip2"