diff --git a/package/base/dietlibc/__i686-defined-hotfix.patch b/package/base/dietlibc/__i686-defined-hotfix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 657b47dec..000000000
--- a/package/base/dietlibc/__i686-defined-hotfix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/dietlibc/__i686-defined-hotfix.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# 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.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-taken from T2 trunk
-2005-01-17 daja77
-
-While optimizing for pentiumII, __i686 gets defined, resulting
-in a compile error "junk at end of line"...
-	-- jsaw
-
---- dietlibc-0.27/i386/PIC.h.orig	2004-12-12 00:41:23.957319464 +0100
-+++ dietlibc-0.27/i386/PIC.h	2004-12-12 01:04:36.086683632 +0100
-@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
- #define __I386_PIC_H__
- #ifdef __DYN_LIB
- 
-+#undef __i686
-+
- #if 1
- /* don't trash the athlon return stack */
- #if (__GNUC__ >= 3)	// FIXME: how do I check for the binutils version ?
diff --git a/package/base/dietlibc/dietlibc.desc b/package/base/dietlibc/dietlibc.desc
index 5237739d1..7074c6b57 100644
--- a/package/base/dietlibc/dietlibc.desc
+++ b/package/base/dietlibc/dietlibc.desc
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.27
+[V] 0.29
 [P] X 01-3-----9 100.700
 
-[D] 3551932880 dietlibc-0.27.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/dietlibc/
+[D] 1167725729 dietlibc-0.29.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/dietlibc/
 [D] 1283832747 sparc64-softfpu-dietlibc0.25-1.0.diff.bz2 http://www.rocklinux.net/people/fake/dietlibc/
 
diff --git a/package/base/dietlibc/stdio_h.patch b/package/base/dietlibc/stdio_h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f6ac12c25..000000000
--- a/package/base/dietlibc/stdio_h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/dietlibc/stdio_h.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# 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.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-This is needed because a definition like:
-"static FILE dummy;"
-will not work because of:
-"storage size of `dummy' isn't known"
-and that can be found in coreutils ...
-
---- ./dietstdio.h~	Fri Dec 13 21:23:43 2002
-+++ ./dietstdio.h	Sat Apr 19 17:07:14 2003
-@@ -14,22 +14,6 @@
- #define BUFSIZE 2048
- #endif
- 
--struct __stdio_file {
--  int fd;
--  int flags;
--  unsigned int bs;	/* read: bytes in buffer */
--  unsigned int bm;	/* position in buffer */
--  unsigned int buflen;	/* length of buf */
--  char *buf;
--  struct __stdio_file *next;	/* for fflush */
--  pid_t popen_kludge;
--  unsigned char ungetbuf;
--  char ungotten;
--#ifdef WANT_THREAD_SAFE
--  pthread_mutex_t m;
--#endif
--};
--
- #define ERRORINDICATOR 1
- #define EOFINDICATOR 2
- #define BUFINPUT 4
---- ./include/stdio.h.orig	Sat Apr 19 17:18:15 2003
-+++ ./include/stdio.h	Sat Apr 19 17:20:18 2003
-@@ -5,6 +5,26 @@
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- 
-+#ifndef _PTHREAD_H
-+#include <pthread.h>
-+#endif
-+
-+struct __stdio_file {
-+  int fd;
-+  int flags;
-+  unsigned int bs;      /* read: bytes in buffer */
-+  unsigned int bm;      /* position in buffer */
-+  unsigned int buflen;  /* length of buf */
-+  char *buf;
-+  struct __stdio_file *next;    /* for fflush */
-+  pid_t popen_kludge;
-+  unsigned char ungetbuf;
-+  char ungotten;
-+#ifdef WANT_THREAD_SAFE
-+  pthread_mutex_t m;
-+#endif
-+};
-+
- typedef struct __stdio_file FILE;
- 
- FILE *fopen (const char *path, const char *mode) __THROW;