diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index a5da3da73..ae012f783 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
  - fixed screen's va_list useage (again - only visible on non-x86 system)
  - Andreas V. Meier: added mdadm, an alternative to the old raid-tools
                      added ripperx
+ - added Dimitar Zhekov's mine shared linking patch (which is already in mine
+   SVN) since we will not have a new mine release before -rc3
 
 *) 2003-11-13 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
diff --git a/package/base/mine/static.patch b/package/base/mine/static.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1053a9e8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/mine/static.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+--- ./Makefile.orig	2003-10-18 11:26:04.000000000 +0300
++++ ./Makefile	2003-10-18 11:26:13.000000000 +0300
+@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
+ MINE_VER  = 0.15
+ MINE_OBJ  = create.o install.o remove.o pkglist.o
+ MINE_OBJ += showfile.o showkey.o memdb.o md5.o md5sum.o mine.o
+-MINE_LDFLAGS = -static
+ 
+ # GAS
+ #
+@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@
+ 
+ # What do we want to build
+ #
+-targets = mine
++targets = mine mine.static
+ ifeq ($(USE_GAS), 1)
+   targets += gasgui
+ endif
+@@ -79,13 +78,17 @@
+ all: $(targets)
+ 
+ mine: $(MINE_ALL_OBJS)
+-	$(CC) $(MINE_ALL_OBJS) $(MINE_LDFLAGS) -o mine
++	$(CC) $(MINE_ALL_OBJS) -o mine
++
++mine.static:
++	$(CC) $(MINE_ALL_OBJS) -static -o mine.static
+ 
+ gasgui: $(GAS_OBJ)
+ 	$(CC) $(GAS_OBJ) -ldialog -lcurses -lm -o gasgui
+ 
+ install:
+ 	install mine $(sysprefix)/bin/mine
++	install mine.static $(sysprefix)/bin/mine.static
+ 	install tarbz2gem.sh $(prefix)/sbin/tarbz2gem
+ 	install rocket.sh $(prefix)/sbin/rocket
+ ifeq ($(USE_GAS), 1)