diff --git a/mdadm/.md5sum b/mdadm/.md5sum
index 2c2233ca6..5494e160e 100644
--- a/mdadm/.md5sum
+++ b/mdadm/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-dd951296208068119132a684d835e18c  mdadm-2.6.1.tar.gz
+e42142677104e1984d726862488b4af4  mdadm-2.6.2.patch
+e34d2590523d679895966c4111670450  mdadm-2.6.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/mdadm/Pkgfile b/mdadm/Pkgfile
index bc8f14631..ec3685de6 100644
--- a/mdadm/Pkgfile
+++ b/mdadm/Pkgfile
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 # Maintainer:  Jürgen Daubert, juergen dot daubert at t-online dot de
 
 name=mdadm
-version=2.6.1
+version=2.6.2
 release=1
-source=(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz)
+source=(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz
+        $name-$version.patch)
 
 build() {
     cd $name-$version
+    patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-$version.patch
     make CXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" DESTDIR=$PKG MANDIR=/usr/man install
 }
diff --git a/mdadm/mdadm-2.6.2.patch b/mdadm/mdadm-2.6.2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5217fe7e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdadm/mdadm-2.6.2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Fix compile error in Detail.c
+
+'avail' is undefined if '--export', so make sure we don't try to use
+it.
+
+
+### Diffstat output
+ ./Detail.c |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff .prev/Detail.c ./Detail.c
+--- .prev/Detail.c	2007-05-21 14:25:50.000000000 +1000
++++ ./Detail.c	2007-05-22 08:57:59.000000000 +1000
+@@ -377,12 +377,12 @@ This is pretty boring
+ 
+ 	if (brief > 1 && devices) printf("\n   devices=%s", devices);
+ 	if (brief) printf("\n");
+-out:
+ 	if (test &&
+ 	    !enough(array.level, array.raid_disks, array.layout,
+ 		    1, avail, avail_disks))
+ 		rv = 2;
+ 
++out:
+ 	close(fd);
+ 	return rv;
+ }
+