diff --git a/base/musl/pkg/python/python-fix-posix-close-clash.patch b/base/musl/pkg/python/python-fix-posix-close-clash.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6656a3fc3..000000000
--- a/base/musl/pkg/python/python-fix-posix-close-clash.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../musl/pkg/python/python-fix-posix-close-clash.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2014 The OpenSDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-./Modules/posixmodule.c:6585:1: error: conflicting types for 'posix_close'
-In file included from Include/Python.h:44:0,
-                 from ./Modules/posixmodule.c:28:
-/usr/include/unistd.h:38:5: note: previous declaration of 'posix_close' was here
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The patch originally comes from https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/
-
---- a/Modules/posixmodule.c	2014-03-20 17:50:48.774208443 +0100
-+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c	2014-03-20 17:52:38.080729474 +0100
-@@ -6582,7 +6582,7 @@
- Close a file descriptor (for low level IO).");
- 
- static PyObject *
--posix_close(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
-+posix_closex(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
- {
-     int fd, res;
-     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:close", &fd))
-@@ -8960,7 +8960,7 @@
-     {"tcsetpgrp",       posix_tcsetpgrp, METH_VARARGS, posix_tcsetpgrp__doc__},
- #endif /* HAVE_TCSETPGRP */
-     {"open",            posix_open, METH_VARARGS, posix_open__doc__},
--    {"close",           posix_close, METH_VARARGS, posix_close__doc__},
-+    {"close",           posix_closex, METH_VARARGS, posix_close__doc__},
-     {"closerange",      posix_closerange, METH_VARARGS, posix_closerange__doc__},
-     {"dup",             posix_dup, METH_VARARGS, posix_dup__doc__},
-     {"dup2",            posix_dup2, METH_VARARGS, posix_dup2__doc__},
diff --git a/python/python/python.conf b/python/python/python.conf
index bef78100b..ac025e4f0 100644
--- a/python/python/python.conf
+++ b/python/python/python.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../python/python.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2014 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2015 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ python_preconf()
 
 	for x in gdbm readline zlib; do
 		# enable if present
-		if pkginstalled $x; then
+		if pkginstalled -f $x; then
 			sed -i -e "s/^#\($x\)/\1/" Modules/Setup.dist
 		fi
 	done
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ fix_python_for_64bit() {
 # toolchain tweaks
 if atstage toolchain; then
 	# we need pgen at cross stage that runs on the build host
+	# but as our toolchain stage is small we only build what we need.
+	makeopt="python Parser/pgen"
+	makeinstopt=
 	hook_add postmake 5 'cp Parser/pgen $root$bindir/python-pgen'
 fi
 
@@ -75,3 +78,4 @@ if atstage cross; then
 	var_append configprefix ' ' "CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\""
 	var_append configprefix ' ' "LDFLAGS=\"$LDFLAGS\""
 fi
+
diff --git a/python/python/python.desc b/python/python/python.desc
index b5ad0b14e..5f3ddfb36 100644
--- a/python/python/python.desc
+++ b/python/python/python.desc
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 [L] OpenSource
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.7.9
+[V] 2.7.10
 [P] X ??---5---9 109.000
 
-[D] 2360362437 Python-2.7.9.tgz http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.9/
+[D] 1508317814 Python-2.7.10.tgz http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/