diff --git a/network/jigdo/fix_man_page_build.diff b/network/jigdo/fix_man_page_build.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a23ee8cff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/network/jigdo/fix_man_page_build.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff -Naur jigdo-0.8.1/doc/Makefile.in jigdo-0.8.1.patched/doc/Makefile.in
+--- jigdo-0.8.1/doc/Makefile.in	2021-10-31 14:09:53.000000000 -0400
++++ jigdo-0.8.1.patched/doc/Makefile.in	2022-03-01 12:34:10.348574996 -0500
+@@ -15,12 +15,9 @@
+ .SUFFIXES: .1 .sgml .html
+ 
+ .sgml.1:
+-		mkdir -p tmp && cp "$<" tmp \
+-		    && cd tmp && $(DOCBOOK2MAN) "`echo $< | sed 's%.*/%%'`"
+-		sed -e 's/   */ /g' <"`ls tmp/*.1`" >"$@"
+-		rm -rf tmp
+-#		sed -e 's%\\%\\\\%g;' <"$<" | tr -s '[:space:]' ' ' \
+-#		    | $(DOCBOOKTOMAN) - >"$@"
++		$(DOCBOOK2MAN) $<
++		mv $(subst .1,.en.1,$@) $@
++
+ .sgml.html:
+ 		rm -f "$@"
+ 		$(DOCBOOK2HTML) "$<" --nochunks
+@@ -32,8 +29,7 @@
+ .PHONY:		all clean distclean mostlyclean maintainer-clean \
+ 		dep depend doc check
+ all:		jigdo-file.1 jigdo-file.html jigdo-lite.1 jigdo-lite.html \
+-		jigdo-mirror.1 jigdo-mirror.html \
+-		debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html
++		jigdo-mirror.1 jigdo-mirror.html
+ doc mostlyclean dep depend check: ;
+ 
+ clean:		Makefile
diff --git a/network/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.3-gcc7.patch b/network/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.3-gcc7.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d5f0c8a4d0..0000000000
--- a/network/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.3-gcc7.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur jigdo-0.7.3.orig/src/mkimage.cc jigdo-0.7.3/src/mkimage.cc
---- jigdo-0.7.3.orig/src/mkimage.cc	2005-07-09 21:14:46.000000000 +0200
-+++ jigdo-0.7.3/src/mkimage.cc	2017-02-17 14:47:12.884488507 +0100
-@@ -285,27 +285,27 @@
- //______________________________________________________________________
- 
- namespace {
--  const int SIZE_WIDTH = 12;
-+  const int size_width = 12;
- }
- 
- ostream& JigdoDesc::ImageInfo::put(ostream& s) const {
--  s << "image-info  " << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << size() << "              "
-+  s << "image-info  " << setw(size_width) << size() << "              "
-     << md5() << ' ' << blockLength() << '\n';
-   return s;
- }
- ostream& JigdoDesc::UnmatchedData::put(ostream& s) const {
--  s << "in-template " << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << offset() << ' '
--    << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << size() << '\n';
-+  s << "in-template " << setw(size_width) << offset() << ' '
-+    << setw(size_width) << size() << '\n';
-   return s;
- }
- ostream& JigdoDesc::MatchedFile::put(ostream& s) const {
--  s << "need-file   " << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << offset() << ' '
--    << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << size() << ' ' << md5() << ' ' << rsync() << '\n';
-+  s << "need-file   " << setw(size_width) << offset() << ' '
-+    << setw(size_width) << size() << ' ' << md5() << ' ' << rsync() << '\n';
-   return s;
- }
- ostream& JigdoDesc::WrittenFile::put(ostream& s) const {
--  s << "have-file   " << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << offset() << ' '
--    << setw(SIZE_WIDTH) << size() << ' ' << md5() << ' ' << rsync() << '\n';
-+  s << "have-file   " << setw(size_width) << offset() << ' '
-+    << setw(size_width) << size() << ' ' << md5() << ' ' << rsync() << '\n';
-   return s;
- }
- 
diff --git a/network/jigdo/jigdo.SlackBuild b/network/jigdo/jigdo.SlackBuild
index 68572c5ee7..c5939333f0 100644
--- a/network/jigdo/jigdo.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/jigdo/jigdo.SlackBuild
@@ -21,25 +21,26 @@
 #  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
+# 20220222 bkw: Modified by SlackBuilds.org: fix build on 15.0.
+# - update for v0.8.1, which was released in 2021. the old version
+#   was from 2009...
+
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=jigdo
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.7.3}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.8.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
-    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
     arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
        *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -49,8 +50,8 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ else
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
-DOCS="README THANKS changelog doc/TechDetails.txt doc/Hacking.txt"
 
 set -e 
 
@@ -71,20 +71,24 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.xz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
- -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+ -exec chmod 644 {} \+
 
-# apply some patches from debian
-zcat $CWD/jigdo_0.7.3-3.diff.gz | patch -p1
-
-# Fic for gcc-7.x, thanks fedora!
-patch -p1 < $CWD/jigdo-0.7.3-gcc7.patch
+# 20220301 bkw: doc/Makefile.in has some confusing looking stuff that
+# didn't work properly. It would work with some version of docbook2man
+# (one that doesn't print "Working on <file>" on stdout, and does
+# print whatever the sed stuff was expecting to see). There's a much
+# cleaner way to do it, using make's $(subst) macro. Also, don't try
+# to build debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html because it's for some other
+# version of docbook2man. I took the built HTML file from a Debian
+# package and made it a separate download.
+patch -p1 < $CWD/fix_man_page_build.diff
 
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
@@ -97,17 +101,20 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+strip $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM-file
 
-find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+# 20220301 bkw: man pages get installed +x, sigh.
+chmod 644 $PKG/usr/man/man*/*
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man*/*
 
-find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+PKGDOC=$PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+DOCS="COPYING README THANKS changelog doc/TechDetails.txt doc/Hacking.txt"
+HOWTO="debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html"
 
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a $DOCS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
-mv $PKG/usr/share/$PRGNAM/COPYING $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+mkdir -p $PKGDOC
+cp -a $DOCS $PKGDOC
+zcat $CWD/$HOWTO.gz > $PKGDOC/$HOWTO
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKGDOC/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
diff --git a/network/jigdo/jigdo.info b/network/jigdo/jigdo.info
index 6e7167895b..c5236d8e67 100644
--- a/network/jigdo/jigdo.info
+++ b/network/jigdo/jigdo.info
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="jigdo"
-VERSION="0.7.3"
-HOMEPAGE="http://atterer.org/jigdo/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2009-08/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.3.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="bbc1d9ac750bb34e0748f0b57157cc72"
+VERSION="0.8.1"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.einval.com/~steve/software/jigdo/"
+DOWNLOAD="https://www.einval.com/~steve/software/jigdo/download/jigdo-0.8.1.tar.xz \
+          https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/src/debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html.gz"
+MD5SUM="de08a463f3b2c52089bfd582fed3cdff \
+        bfd371e320fa9b48bb86383e3b66341d"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
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