diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/0001-makefile-fix-installation.patch b/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/0001-makefile-fix-installation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d52995281347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/0001-makefile-fix-installation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 428c6e0eb604b63a67fda6af445c10c8ae3c1826 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
+Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:37:13 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] makefile: fix installation
+
+- comment hard-coded $(CC)
+- avoid full paths during install
+- set proper permissions
+---
+ Makefile | 11 ++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 9268c6f..0797579 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ MW=-Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
+ 
+ CFLAGS1 = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-unused-result $(LARGEFILEFLAGS) $(MW)
+ 
+-CC=gcc
++#CC=gcc
+ 
+ # also using contents of usin CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS out of environment
+ # variables, if they exist
+@@ -94,9 +94,14 @@ clean:
+ 	rm -f regtest/statsize regtest/statsize64
+ 	cd regtest; /bin/sh regtest.clean
+ 
++ifndef DESTDIR
++install:
++	$(error Please specify install prefix as $$DESTDIR)
++else
+ install: afio
+-	cp afio /usr/local/bin
+-	cp afio.1 /usr/share/man/man1
++	install -Dm755 afio $(DESTDIR)/bin/afio
++	install -Dm644 afio.1 $(DESTDIR)/share/man/man1/afio.1
++endif
+ 
+ # generate default list of -E extensions from manpage
+ # note: on sun, I had to change awk command below to nawk or gawk
+-- 
+2.18.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/afio-2.5.1-install.patch b/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/afio-2.5.1-install.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fa7aacfa887..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/afio-2.5.1-install.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
---- p1/Makefile.orig	2017-02-14 21:40:20.404249126 +0100
-+++ p1/Makefile	2017-02-19 23:38:43.880414077 +0100
-@@ -66,37 +66,42 @@
- # systems the large file compile environment itself might be buggy or beta.
- #LARGEFILEFLAGS=
- LARGEFILEFLAGS=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
- 
- # even more warnings flags..
- MW=
- #MW=-Wtraditional -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wconversion -pedantic -Wlong-long -Wimplicit -Wuninitialized -W -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
- 
- CFLAGS1 = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer ${LARGEFILEFLAGS} ${MW}
- 
--CC=gcc
-+#CC=gcc
- 
- CFLAGS = ${CFLAGS1} $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $a $b $c $d $e ${e2} $f $g $I
- LDFLAGS =
- 
- afio : afio.o compfile.o exten.o match.o $M
- 	${CC} ${LDFLAGS} afio.o compfile.o exten.o match.o $M -o afio
- 
- clean:
- 	rm -f *.o afio 
- 	rm -f regtest/cmpstat regtest/makesparse
- 	rm -f regtest/statsize regtest/statsize64
- 	cd regtest; /bin/sh regtest.clean
- 
-+ifndef DESTDIR
-+install:
-+	$(error Please specify install prefix as $$DESTDIR)
-+else
- install: afio
--	cp afio /usr/local/bin
--	cp afio.1 /usr/share/man/man1
-+	install -Dm755 afio $(DESTDIR)/bin/afio
-+	install -Dm644 afio.1 $(DESTDIR)/share/man/man1/afio.1
-+endif
- 
- # generate default list of -E extensions from manpage
- # note: on sun, I had to change awk command below to nawk or gawk
- # to get it to work.
- exten_default.h : afio.1
- 		awk -f exten_make.awk afio.1 >exten_default.h
- 
- 
- afio.o : afio.h patchlevel.h
- compfile.o : afio.h
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/default.nix
index 551e38a7869d..0014febf40e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/afio/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl } :
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "2.5.1";
+  version = "2.5.2";
   name = "afio-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://members.chello.nl/~k.holtman/${name}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "363457a5d6ee422d9b704ef56d26369ca5ee671d7209cfe799cab6e30bf2b99a";
+    sha256 = "1fa29wlqv76hzf8bxp1qpza1r23pm2f3m7rcf0jpwm6z150s2k66";
   };
 
   /*
    * A patch to simplify the installation and for removing the
    * hard coded dependency on GCC.
    */
-  patches = [ ./afio-2.5.1-install.patch ];
+  patches = [ ./0001-makefile-fix-installation.patch ];
 
   installFlags = "DESTDIR=$(out)";