diff --git a/libxml2-python/.footprint b/libxml2-python/.footprint
index 6bfa48855..a9bf4e417 100644
--- a/libxml2-python/.footprint
+++ b/libxml2-python/.footprint
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libxml2.py
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.a
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.la
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.a
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.la
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
diff --git a/libxml2-python/.md5sum b/libxml2-python/.md5sum
index c22d6f3d2..6d8147030 100644
--- a/libxml2-python/.md5sum
+++ b/libxml2-python/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-9abc9959823ca9ff904f1fbcf21df066  libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
+8127a65e8c3b08856093099b52599c86  libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz
 a97b82bd548a2a82f6bd1adce5863c4f  libxml2-python-config.patch
diff --git a/libxml2-python/Pkgfile b/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
index 58079fe2a..f1fba0faa 100644
--- a/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
+++ b/libxml2-python/Pkgfile
@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
 # Depends on:  python libxml2
 
 name=libxml2-python
-version=2.7.7
+version=2.7.8
 release=1
 source=(ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-$version.tar.gz \
         $name-config.patch)
 
 build () {
     cd libxml2-$version
+    
+    # http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2010-November/msg00016.html
+    sed -i '/VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS/s/-z/-n/' configure
+    
     patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-config.patch
     ./configure --prefix=/usr
     cd python