diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/obsolete_automake_macros.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f9833a430..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
-diff -Nurd opkg/configure.ac opkg/configure.ac
---- opkg/configure.ac	2013-02-01 23:01:57.419774077 +0200
-+++ opkg/configure.ac	2013-02-01 23:02:25.643773458 +0200
-@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
- AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([shave])
-
- AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
--AM_CONFIG_HEADER(libopkg/config.h)
-+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(libopkg/config.h)
-
- AC_CANONICAL_HOST
- AC_GNU_SOURCE
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
index 3a47b9502d..032578d23d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 require opkg.inc
 
-SRC_URI = "svn://opkg.googlecode.com/svn;module=trunk;protocol=http \
-           file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch \
-"
+SRC_URI = "svn://opkg.googlecode.com/svn;module=trunk;protocol=http"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk"
 
-SRCREV = "650"
+SRCREV = "653"
 PV = "0.1.8+svnr${SRCPV}"
 
 PR = "${INC_PR}.0"