diff --git a/package/python-m2crypto/0001-Don-t-try-to-build-with-SSLv2-when-it-is-not-availab.patch b/package/python-m2crypto/0001-Don-t-try-to-build-with-SSLv2-when-it-is-not-availab.patch
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+From ac01b38302474920288c1a9eb63fd35fa8d1db5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bosse Klykken <larkly@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:55:00 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Don=E2=80=99t=20try=20to=20build=20with=20SSLv2?=
+ =?UTF-8?q?=20when=20it=20is=20not=20available.?=
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The patch originally from http://stackoverflow.com/a/11072709/164233
+
+Fixes #30
+
+Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
+---
+ SWIG/_ssl.i | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/SWIG/_ssl.i b/SWIG/_ssl.i
+index 3f6bd61..89b1ad1 100644
+--- a/SWIG/_ssl.i
++++ b/SWIG/_ssl.i
+@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ extern const char *SSL_alert_desc_string(int);
+ %rename(ssl_get_alert_desc_v) SSL_alert_desc_string_long;
+ extern const char *SSL_alert_desc_string_long(int);
+ 
++#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_SSL2
+ %rename(sslv2_method) SSLv2_method;
+ extern SSL_METHOD *SSLv2_method(void);
++#endif
+ %rename(sslv3_method) SSLv3_method;
+ extern SSL_METHOD *SSLv3_method(void);
+ %rename(sslv23_method) SSLv23_method;
+-- 
+2.7.0
+