diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
index 121a92b845d6..f664bcc6917d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
@@ -1,32 +1,23 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, db, groff}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libpipeline, db, groff }:
  
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "man-db-2.5.1";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "man-db-2.6.6";
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://savannah/man-db/man-db-2.5.1.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "178w1fk23ffh8vabj29cn0yyg5ps7bwy1zrrrcsw8aypbh3sfjy3";
+    url = "mirror://savannah/man-db/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1hv6byj6sg6cp3jyf08gbmdm4pwhvd5hzmb94xl0w7prin6hzabx";
   };
   
-  buildInputs = [db groff];
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libpipeline db groff ];
   
   configureFlags = ''
     --disable-setuid
-    --with-nroff=${groff}/bin/nroff
-    --with-tbl=${groff}/bin/tbl
-    --with-eqn=${groff}/bin/eqn
-    --with-neqn=${groff}/bin/neqn
   '';
 
-  troff = "${groff}/bin/troff";
-  
-  patches = [
-    # Search in "share/man" relative to each path in $PATH (in addition to "man").
-    ./share.patch
-  ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/;
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://man-db.nongnu.org";
     description = "An implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/share.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/share.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 95582a50269d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/share.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-diff -rc man-db-2.5.1-orig/src/manp.c man-db-2.5.1/src/manp.c
-*** man-db-2.5.1-orig/src/manp.c	2008-01-07 03:23:11.000000000 +0100
---- man-db-2.5.1/src/manp.c	2008-02-07 14:20:20.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 96,102 ****
-  
-  static void mkcatdirs (const char *mandir, const char *catdir);
-  static inline char *get_manpath_from_path (const char *path);
-! static inline char *has_mandir (const char *p);
-  static inline char *fsstnd (const char *path);
-  static char *def_path (int flag);
-  static void add_dir_to_list (char **lp, const char *dir);
---- 96,102 ----
-  
-  static void mkcatdirs (const char *mandir, const char *catdir);
-  static inline char *get_manpath_from_path (const char *path);
-! static inline char *has_mandir (const char *p, const char *mandir);
-  static inline char *fsstnd (const char *path);
-  static char *def_path (int flag);
-  static void add_dir_to_list (char **lp, const char *dir);
-***************
-*** 928,934 ****
-  		} else {
-  			debug ("is not in the config file\n");
-  
-! 		 	t = has_mandir (p);
-  		 	if (t) {
-  				debug ("but does have a ../man or man "
-  				       "subdirectory\n");
---- 928,934 ----
-  		} else {
-  			debug ("is not in the config file\n");
-  
-! 		 	t = has_mandir (p, "man");
-  		 	if (t) {
-  				debug ("but does have a ../man or man "
-  				       "subdirectory\n");
-***************
-*** 938,943 ****
---- 938,952 ----
-  		 	} else
-  				debug ("and doesn't have ../man or man "
-  				       "subdirectories\n");
-+  
-+  		 	t = has_mandir (p, "share/man");
-+  		 	if (t) {
-+                                 debug ("but does have a ../share/man or share/man subdirectory\n");
-+  	
-+  				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, t);
-+  				free (t);
-+  		 	} else
-+  				debug ("and doesn't have ../share/man or share/man subdirectories\n");
-  		}
-  	}
-  
-***************
-*** 1013,1019 ****
-  
-  /* path does not exist in config file: check to see if path/../man or 
-     path/man exist.  If so return it, if not return NULL. */
-! static inline char *has_mandir (const char *path)
-  {
-  	char *newpath = NULL;
-  
---- 1022,1028 ----
-  
-  /* path does not exist in config file: check to see if path/../man or 
-     path/man exist.  If so return it, if not return NULL. */
-! static inline char *has_mandir (const char *path, const char *mandir)
-  {
-  	char *newpath = NULL;
-  
-***************
-*** 1023,1031 ****
-  	char *subdir = strrchr (path, '/');
-  	if (subdir) {
-  		const int prefix_len = subdir + 1 - path;
-! 		newpath = xmalloc (prefix_len + sizeof ("man") + 1);
-  		strncpy (newpath, path, prefix_len);
-! 		strcpy (newpath + prefix_len, "man");
-  
-  		if (is_directory (newpath) == 1)
-  			return newpath;
---- 1032,1040 ----
-  	char *subdir = strrchr (path, '/');
-  	if (subdir) {
-  		const int prefix_len = subdir + 1 - path;
-! 		newpath = xmalloc (prefix_len + strlen (mandir) + 2);
-  		strncpy (newpath, path, prefix_len);
-! 		strcpy (newpath + prefix_len, mandir);
-  
-  		if (is_directory (newpath) == 1)
-  			return newpath;
-***************
-*** 1033,1039 ****
-  			*newpath = '\0';
-  	}
-  
-! 	newpath = appendstr (newpath, path, "/man", NULL);
-  
-  	if (is_directory (newpath) == 1)
-  		return newpath;
---- 1042,1048 ----
-  			*newpath = '\0';
-  	}
-  
-! 	newpath = appendstr (newpath, path, "/", mandir, NULL);
-  
-  	if (is_directory (newpath) == 1)
-  		return newpath;