diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/build b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/build
index 8771e01746..7f13c7eca9 100755
--- a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/build
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/build
@@ -265,7 +265,6 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --exec-prefix=/usr \
             --sysconfdir=/etc \
             --datadir=/usr/share \
-            GIT_REV=`cat git.version` \
             --disable-debug \
             --disable-optimizations \
             $XBMC_OPENGL \
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-001-add_support_to_specify_GIT_REV-0.1.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-001-add_support_to_specify_GIT_REV-0.1.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c013e0ae3a..0000000000
--- a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-001-add_support_to_specify_GIT_REV-0.1.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur xbmc-9389dc8/configure.in xbmc-9389dc8.patch/configure.in
---- xbmc-9389dc8/configure.in	2011-09-01 17:21:47.000000000 +0200
-+++ xbmc-9389dc8.patch/configure.in	2011-09-01 23:30:40.419399392 +0200
-@@ -428,6 +428,14 @@
- esac
- AC_SUBST([ARCH])
- 
-+AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GIT,git,"yes","no",)
-+if test "$HAVE_GIT" = "yes" -a "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
-+  GIT_REV=$(git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h %ci" HEAD | awk '{gsub("-", "");print $2"-"$1}')
-+elif test "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
-+  GIT_REV="Unknown"
-+fi
-+final_message="$final_message\n  git Rev.:\t${GIT_REV}"
-+
- # platform debug flags
- if test "$use_debug" = "yes"; then
-   final_message="$final_message\n  Debugging:\tYes"
-@@ -1177,7 +1185,6 @@
-   fi
- fi
- 
--AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GIT,git,"yes","no",)
- 
- # Checks for header files.
- AC_HEADER_DIRENT
-@@ -1408,12 +1415,6 @@
-   final_message="$final_message\n  Avahi:\tNo"
- fi
- 
--if test "$HAVE_GIT" = "yes"; then
--  GIT_REV=$(git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h %ci" HEAD | awk '{gsub("-", "");print $2"-"$1}')
--fi
--if test "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
--  GIT_REV="Unknown"
--fi
- if test "$host_vendor" = "apple"; then
-   echo "#define GIT_REV \"$GIT_REV\"" > git_revision.h
- else
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.04-PR1934.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.04-PR1934.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8079f1049a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.04-PR1934.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From 1704ff69ba704bf53505f7f9ac51ec06f93401ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: wsnipex <wsnipex@a1.net>
+Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:37:21 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 1/2] configure: allow GIT_REV to be read from VERSION file
+ needed for building outside of a git repo
+
+---
+ configure.in |    7 ++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
+index d8c7804..ac1445c 100644
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -2160,7 +2160,12 @@ if test "$HAVE_GIT" = "yes"; then
+   GIT_REV=$(git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h %ci" HEAD | awk '{gsub("-", "");print $2"-"$1}')
+ fi
+ if test "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
+-  GIT_REV="Unknown"
++  if test -f VERSION ; then
++    GIT_REV=$(awk 'END{print substr($1,1,16)}' VERSION)
++    if test -z $GIT_REV ; then GIT_REV="Unknown" ; fi
++  else
++    GIT_REV="Unknown"
++  fi
+ fi
+ if test "$host_vendor" = "apple"; then
+   echo "#define GIT_REV \"$GIT_REV\"" > git_revision.h
+-- 
+1.7.10
+
+
+From 4377a985c7e4e4d1f1c0abba68c2367d33ddab03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: wsnipex <wsnipex@a1.net>
+Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:46:12 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] release-source script needs bash on some systems /bin/sh
+ is a simplistic posix shell
+
+---
+ tools/mk-release-source |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/mk-release-source b/tools/mk-release-source
+index 7964665..68bdfa1 100755
+--- a/tools/mk-release-source
++++ b/tools/mk-release-source
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/bin/sh
++#!/bin/bash
+ REVISION="${1}"
+ COMPRESS="gzip"
+ WORKDIR="xbmc-${REVISION}"
+-- 
+1.7.10
+
diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.05-PR2193.patch b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.05-PR2193.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab619e9a67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/patches/xbmc-990.05-PR2193.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+From 1e3abea7b9a4212005b11dbb5a9542ca9cbcd21a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stephan Raue <stephan@openelec.tv>
+Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:27:08 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] configure.in: change check for 'VERSION' file: - first check
+ if this file exist and use the content from there - if it
+ not exist check with 'git log' - if this fails set to
+ 'Unknown'
+
+This patch also shows the GIT_REV in the configure summary message. To display This message on top of the messages we move the whole block a bit above
+---
+ configure.in |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
+ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
+index ac1445c..869fd29 100644
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -687,6 +687,25 @@ case $use_platform in
+      ;;
+ esac
+ 
++# check for GIT_REV
++AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GIT,git,"yes","no",)
++if test "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
++  if test -f VERSION ; then
++    GIT_REV=$(awk 'END{print substr($1,1,16)}' VERSION)
++  elif test "$HAVE_GIT" = "yes"; then
++    GIT_REV=$(git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h %ci" HEAD | awk '{gsub("-", "");print $2"-"$1}')
++  else
++    GIT_REV="Unknown"
++  fi
++fi
++final_message="$final_message\n  git Rev.:\t${GIT_REV}"
++
++if test "$host_vendor" = "apple"; then
++  echo "#define GIT_REV \"$GIT_REV\"" > git_revision.h
++else
++  SDL_DEFINES="$SDL_DEFINES -D'GIT_REV=\"$GIT_REV\"'"
++fi
++
+ if test "$build_shared_lib" = "yes"; then
+   final_message="$final_message\n Shared lib\tYes"
+   AC_SUBST(USE_LIBXBMC,1)
+@@ -1886,8 +1905,6 @@ if test "$ARCH" = "i486-linux" || test "$ARCH" = "x86-freebsd"; then
+   fi
+ fi
+ 
+-AC_CHECK_PROG(HAVE_GIT,git,"yes","no",)
+-
+ # Checks for header files.
+ AC_HEADER_DIRENT
+ AC_HEADER_STDC
+@@ -1943,7 +1960,7 @@ else
+     USE_OPENGL=1
+   else
+     final_message="$final_message\n  OpenGL:\tNo (Very Slow)"
+-    SDL_DEFINES="-DHAS_SDL_2D"
++    SDL_DEFINES="$SDL_DEFINES -DHAS_SDL_2D"
+     USE_OPENGL=0
+   fi
+ fi
+@@ -2156,23 +2173,6 @@ else
+   final_message="$final_message\n  Avahi:\tNo"
+ fi
+ 
+-if test "$HAVE_GIT" = "yes"; then
+-  GIT_REV=$(git --no-pager log --abbrev=7 -n 1 --pretty=format:"%h %ci" HEAD | awk '{gsub("-", "");print $2"-"$1}')
+-fi
+-if test "$GIT_REV" = ""; then
+-  if test -f VERSION ; then
+-    GIT_REV=$(awk 'END{print substr($1,1,16)}' VERSION)
+-    if test -z $GIT_REV ; then GIT_REV="Unknown" ; fi
+-  else
+-    GIT_REV="Unknown"
+-  fi
+-fi
+-if test "$host_vendor" = "apple"; then
+-  echo "#define GIT_REV \"$GIT_REV\"" > git_revision.h
+-else
+-  SDL_DEFINES="$SDL_DEFINES -D'GIT_REV=\"$GIT_REV\"'"
+-fi
+-
+ if test "$use_nonfree" = "yes"; then
+   final_message="$final_message\n  Non-free:\tYes"
+   HAVE_XBMC_NONFREE=1
+-- 
+1.7.10
+