diff --git a/package/base/curl/configure-mess.patch b/package/base/curl/configure-mess.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f7d3ed2e..000000000
--- a/package/base/curl/configure-mess.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +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/curl/configure-mess.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it 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. A copy of the GNU General Public
-# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
-# 
-# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
-# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
-# file for details.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- curl-7.10.5/configure.or	2003-05-30 00:07:54.000000000 +0200
-+++ curl-7.10.5/configure	2003-05-30 00:24:02.000000000 +0200
-@@ -21475,13 +21475,7 @@
- 
- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking if argv can be written to" >&5
- echo $ECHO_N "checking if argv can be written to... $ECHO_C" >&6
--if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
--  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
--echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
--        { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: the previous check could not be made default was used" >&5
--echo "$as_me: WARNING: the previous check could not be made default was used" >&2;}
- 
--else
-   cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
- 
- int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
-@@ -21518,7 +21512,6 @@
- echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
- fi
- rm -f core core.* *.core gmon.out bb.out conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
--fi
- 
- 
- 
diff --git a/package/base/curl/curl.desc b/package/base/curl/curl.desc
index 9865f5214..e7656986c 100644
--- a/package/base/curl/curl.desc
+++ b/package/base/curl/curl.desc
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 [L] MIT
 [S] Stable
-[V] 7.10.8
+[V] 7.11.1
 [P] X -1---5-7-9 211.000
 
-[D] 966404008 curl-7.10.8.tar.bz2 http://curl.haxx.se/download/
+[D] 231458056 curl-7.11.1.tar.bz2 http://curl.haxx.se/download/
 
diff --git a/package/base/curl/hotfix.patch b/package/base/curl/hotfix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f1ff66830..000000000
--- a/package/base/curl/hotfix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +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/curl/hotfix.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it 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. A copy of the GNU General Public
-# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
-# 
-# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
-# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
-# file for details.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- ./configure.orig	2003-01-15 10:17:11.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./configure	2003-01-15 10:21:20.000000000 +0100
-@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
- ## M4sh Initialization.  ##
- ## --------------------- ##
- 
-+# These are not set if no libz is available.
-+#
-+export CONTENT_ENCODING_TRUE=
-+export CONTENT_ENCODING_FALSE='#'
-+
- # Be Bourne compatible
- if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-   emulate sh