diff --git a/srcpkgs/MesaLib/MesaLib-devel.template b/srcpkgs/MesaLib/MesaLib-devel.template
index ad2121c4369..61f7d0930ec 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/MesaLib/MesaLib-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/MesaLib/MesaLib-devel.template
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-revision=2
-
 Add_dependency build pkg-config
 Add_dependency build glproto
 Add_dependency build dri2proto  ">=2.1"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/MesaLib/template b/srcpkgs/MesaLib/template
index e1e04ace4c4..630589cb97f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/MesaLib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/MesaLib/template
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 # Template build file for 'MesaLib'.
 pkgname=MesaLib
-version=7.7
-revision=2
-wrksrc="Mesa-${version}"
+version=7.7.0.902
+wrksrc="Mesa-7.8-rc2"
 distfiles="
-ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/$version/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2
-ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/$version/MesaDemos-$version.tar.bz2"
+ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/7.8/RC/$pkgname-7.8-rc2.tar.bz2
+ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/7.8/RC/MesaDemos-7.8-rc2.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-glx-tls --enable-xcb --with-demos"
 short_desc="Graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 checksum="
-6252d7d4190b47f70d0e4ec0edbd5a70f2261c5f6e66859e5fd2572c1df6357a
-38dbcce59fcc457b53ff6d4e2d5a400d41c02f093bb1fae141e99e032729ab14"
+f79fc44a59f11af3d8e7bcad52eaf6b275632a971f60849db3dac055a0170dd5
+13c1d83bbc3c53443b6a0ae091fcba4cfbe5224851171d3877ea185490b261b8"
 long_desc="
  MesaLib is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to
  that of OpenGL*. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax