diff --git a/srcpkgs/libarchive/libarchive-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libarchive/libarchive-devel.template
index 02002edfe4f..c29384ee9b4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libarchive/libarchive-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libarchive/libarchive-devel.template
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'libarchive-devel'.
 #
-short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} development files"
 long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-revision=1
-
 Add_dependency run acl-devel
 Add_dependency run zlib-devel
 Add_dependency run bzip2-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libarchive/template b/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
index c0e939989c7..316596bcaa6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Template file for 'libarchive'
 pkgname=libarchive
-version=2.7.1
-revision=3
+version=2.8.0
 distfiles="http://libarchive.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--without-xml2 --without-expat"
 short_desc="Library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660, etc."
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=a7e066ef857d3db0211e2d916ca14aafc48a4776c4fa108fd67092ce862a7ba8
+checksum=e5be324c94e885e449b8ffb30a843372d557966547efff3f1d5f69eb5a119769
 long_desc="
  Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
  different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants,