diff --git a/package/rene/xine/head-tail.patch.xine-lib b/package/rene/xine/head-tail.patch.xine-lib
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e1c45ef6..000000000
--- a/package/rene/xine/head-tail.patch.xine-lib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-diff -dur xine-lib-1-rc6a/configure.ac xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/configure.ac
---- xine-lib-1-rc6a/configure.ac	2004-09-16 17:10:45.000000000 +0200
-+++ xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/configure.ac	2004-11-04 19:42:03.004464528 +0100
-@@ -1910,7 +1910,7 @@
- dnl Some informations about xine-lib compilation
- dnl ---------------------------------------------
- 
--XINE_BUILD_CC="`$CC -v 2>&1 | tail -1`"
-+XINE_BUILD_CC="`$CC -v 2>&1 | tail -n1`"
- XINE_BUILD_OS="`uname -s -r -m`"
- XINE_BUILD_DATE="`date \"+%a %d %b %Y %T\"`"
- AC_SUBST(XINE_BUILD_CC)
-diff -dur xine-lib-1-rc6a/configure xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/configure
---- xine-lib-1-rc6a/configure	2004-09-16 17:14:46.000000000 +0200
-+++ xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/configure	2004-11-04 19:42:29.611419656 +0100
-@@ -42456,7 +42456,7 @@
- 
- 
- 
--XINE_BUILD_CC="`$CC -v 2>&1 | tail -1`"
-+XINE_BUILD_CC="`$CC -v 2>&1 | tail -n1`"
- XINE_BUILD_OS="`uname -s -r -m`"
- XINE_BUILD_DATE="`date \"+%a %d %b %Y %T\"`"
- 
-diff -dur xine-lib-1-rc6a/po/POTFILES.in xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/po/POTFILES.in
---- xine-lib-1-rc6a/po/POTFILES.in	2004-09-16 17:17:02.000000000 +0200
-+++ xine-lib-1-rc6a-p/po/POTFILES.in	2004-11-04 19:41:41.175782992 +0100
-@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- # For updating this file, look at the result of:
--#  head -3 po/POTFILES.in > /tmp/POTFILES.in && find src -name "*.[chy]" | xargs grep -l '[^A-Za-z_]_(' | grep -v src/xine-engine/xineintl.h >> /tmp/POTFILES.in && cp /tmp/POTFILES.in po/
-+#  head -n3 po/POTFILES.in > /tmp/POTFILES.in && find src -name "*.[chy]" | xargs grep -l '[^A-Za-z_]_(' | grep -v src/xine-engine/xineintl.h >> /tmp/POTFILES.in && cp /tmp/POTFILES.in po/
- 
- src/audio_out/audio_alsa_out.c
- src/audio_out/audio_arts_out.c
diff --git a/package/rene/xine/mkinstalldirs-po-location.patch.xine-ui b/package/rene/xine/mkinstalldirs-po-location.patch.xine-ui
index ecc9b00fb..e9f7ff707 100644
--- a/package/rene/xine/mkinstalldirs-po-location.patch.xine-ui
+++ b/package/rene/xine/mkinstalldirs-po-location.patch.xine-ui
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
  MKINSTALLDIRS = @MKINSTALLDIRS@
 -mkinstalldirs = `if test ! -z "$(mkdir_p)"; then echo "$(mkdir_p)"; else case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*) echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; *) echo "$(top_srcdir)/$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac; fi`
-+mkinstalldirs = $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
++mkinstalldirs = ../mkinstalldirs
  
  CC = @CC@
  GMSGFMT = @GMSGFMT@
diff --git a/package/rene/xine/xine.desc b/package/rene/xine/xine.desc
index d187556fc..6d976606f 100644
--- a/package/rene/xine/xine.desc
+++ b/package/rene/xine/xine.desc
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1-rc7
+[V] 1-rc8
 [P] X -?---5---9 170.000
 
 [SRC] .
 
-[D] 3780520825 xine-lib-1-rc7.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/xine/
+[D] 2274531976 xine-lib-1-rc8.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/xine/
 [D] 1173347734 xine-ui-0.99.2.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/xine/
 
diff --git a/package/rene/xine/xv-xm.patch.xine-lib b/package/rene/xine/xv-xm.patch.xine-lib
deleted file mode 100644
index f46457fe0..000000000
--- a/package/rene/xine/xv-xm.patch.xine-lib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +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/rene/xine/xv-xm.patch.xine-lib
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 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 ---
-
---- ./configure.ac.orig	2004-12-10 00:40:11.003913648 +0100
-+++ ./configure.ac	2004-12-10 00:46:52.890817552 +0100
-@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
- dnl static linking is preferred!
- dnl but only dynamic linking is possible when using libtool < 1.4.0
- 
--AC_PREREQ_LIBTOOL(1.4.0, xv_lib="libXv.a", xv_lib="libXv.so")
-+AC_PREREQ_LIBTOOL(1.4.0, xv_lib="libXv.so", xv_lib="libXv.so")
- 
- host_or_hostalias="$host"
- if test "$host_or_hostalias" = ""; then
---- xine-lib-1-rc2//configure.orig	2004-03-22 07:32:29.000000000 +0100
-+++ xine-lib-1-rc2//configure	2004-03-22 07:32:45.000000000 +0100
-@@ -25026,7 +25026,7 @@
-     fi
-     echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
- echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
--    xv_lib="libXv.a"
-+    xv_lib="libXv.so"
- 
- 
-