diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/default.nix
index 52011df02dcf..c1dd50adfe61 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "udev-068";
+  name = "udev-091";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/udev-068.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "fd9db7375dae81e8aa634414b5ede0d6";
+    url = http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-091.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "4151022ea7b4dcfaa768c1b7bf2ab9e5";
   };
-  patches = [./udev-installpath.patch];
+  patches = [./udev-091-installpath.patch];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/udev-091-installpath.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/udev-091-installpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b9be4589cd0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/udev/udev-091-installpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruN udev-091/Makefile udev-091.new/Makefile
+--- udev-091/Makefile	2006-04-25 22:39:59.000000000 +0200
++++ udev-091.new/Makefile	2006-04-28 14:54:55.000000000 +0200
+@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
+ mandir =	${prefix}/usr/share/man
+ configdir =	${etcdir}/udev
+ udevdir =	/dev
+-DESTDIR =
++DESTDIR = ${out}
+ 
+ INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c
+ INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}