diff --git a/package/public/octave/octave.conf b/package/public/octave/octave.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 7838d3ea4..000000000
--- a/package/public/octave/octave.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +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/public/octave/octave.conf
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 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 ---
-
-
-#if [ -d /opt/hdf ] ; then
-#  LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/opt/atlas/lib -L/opt/hdf/lib -L/opt/lapack/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/hdf/include" eval ./configure $confopt 
-#else
-#  LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/opt/atlas/lib -L/opt/lapack/lib" eval ./configure $confopt
-#fi
-
-export MAKE="$MAKE SED=$SED"
diff --git a/package/public/octave/octave.desc b/package/public/octave/octave.desc
index 5072d856c..df4bfe249 100644
--- a/package/public/octave/octave.desc
+++ b/package/public/octave/octave.desc
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
 [C] extra/scientific
 
 [L] GPL
-[S] Beta
-[V] 2.1.71
+[S] Stable
+[V] 3.0.0
 [P] X --?--5---9 256.400
 
-[D] 196198537 octave-2.1.71.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/
+[D] 3133547790 octave-3.0.0.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/