diff --git a/devel/libvanessa_socket/Makefile b/devel/libvanessa_socket/Makefile
index 89bd42c9543b..af422ed965a8 100644
--- a/devel/libvanessa_socket/Makefile
+++ b/devel/libvanessa_socket/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
-# New ports collection makefile for:	libvanessa_socket
-# Date created:		28 April 2001
-# Whom:			Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@daemon.gr>
-#
+# Created by: Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@daemon.gr>
 # $FreeBSD$
-#
 
 PORTNAME=	libvanessa_socket
-PORTVERSION=	0.0.7
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.0.12
 CATEGORIES=	devel
-MASTER_SITES=	http://www.vergenet.net/linux/vanessa/download/%SUBDIR%/
-MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	vanessa_socket/${PORTVERSION}
+MASTER_SITES=	http://horms.net/projects/vanessa/download/vanessa_socket/${PORTVERSION}/
 DISTNAME=	vanessa_socket-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	thomas@bsdunix.ch
 COMMENT=	Library that provides a simple layer for TCP/IP socket operations
 
-LIB_DEPENDS=	vanessa_logger.0:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libvanessa_logger \
-		popt.0:${PORTSDIR}/devel/popt
+LIB_DEPENDS=	vanessa_logger:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libvanessa_logger \
+		popt:${PORTSDIR}/devel/popt
 
 MAN1=		vanessa_socket_pipe.1
 
+USE_BZIP2=	yes
 USE_AUTOTOOLS=	libtool
-USE_LDCONFIG=	YES
-GNU_CONFIGURE=	YES
+USE_GNOME=	gnomehack
+USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
+GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
+
 CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 
+post-patch:
+	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^SUBDIRS/s|debian||' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.in
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/libvanessa_socket/distinfo b/devel/libvanessa_socket/distinfo
index 863d5f1ed178..c7a243da2edf 100644
--- a/devel/libvanessa_socket/distinfo
+++ b/devel/libvanessa_socket/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (vanessa_socket-0.0.7.tar.gz) = d8fdc5339115911581c763d2cc9bf4e71c0cd4c07f6093f024bb7ae6e3b89907
-SIZE (vanessa_socket-0.0.7.tar.gz) = 321042
+SHA256 (vanessa_socket-0.0.12.tar.bz2) = bb3fea2e2210426748029939dec564c05263dfa7f7d951ee8bc289225f19affe
+SIZE (vanessa_socket-0.0.12.tar.bz2) = 283799
diff --git a/devel/libvanessa_socket/files/patch-vanessa_socket_pipe-Makefile.in b/devel/libvanessa_socket/files/patch-vanessa_socket_pipe-Makefile.in
index efd2f8f93b44..f45190af3f3b 100644
--- a/devel/libvanessa_socket/files/patch-vanessa_socket_pipe-Makefile.in
+++ b/devel/libvanessa_socket/files/patch-vanessa_socket_pipe-Makefile.in
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
---- vanessa_socket_pipe/Makefile.in.orig	Fri Jun  6 05:49:20 2003
-+++ vanessa_socket_pipe/Makefile.in	Tue Jul  1 17:05:55 2003
-@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
- 
+--- ./vanessa_socket_pipe/Makefile.in.orig	2012-12-11 08:19:23.000000000 -0500
++++ ./vanessa_socket_pipe/Makefile.in	2012-12-11 08:19:23.000000000 -0500
+@@ -278,8 +278,7 @@
  INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/libvanessa_socket
- 
--vanessa_socket_pipe_LDADD =  -L../libvanessa_socket -L../libvanessa_socket/.libs/ -lvanessa_socket @extra_libs@ @vanessa_logger_libs@ -lpopt
-+vanessa_socket_pipe_LDADD =  -L../libvanessa_socket ../libvanessa_socket/.libs/libvanessa_socket.so @extra_libs@ @vanessa_logger_libs@ -lpopt
- 
- mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs
- CONFIG_HEADER = ../config.h
+ vanessa_socket_pipe_LDADD = \
+ -L../libvanessa_socket \
+--L../libvanessa_socket/.libs/ \
+--lvanessa_socket \
++../libvanessa_socket/.libs/libvanessa_socket.so \
+ -lvanessa_logger \
+ @extra_libs@ \
+ @vanessa_logger_libs@ \
diff --git a/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-descr b/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-descr
index 1e18c2b20395..b021d469f8a4 100644
--- a/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-descr
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ operations. It includes code to open a socket to a server as a client, to
 listen on sockets for clients as a server and to pipe information between
 sockets.
 
-WWW: http://www.vergenet.net/linux/vanessa/
+WWW: http://horms.net/projects/vanessa/
diff --git a/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-plist b/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-plist
index bba48c37da7e..950f3e75dc16 100644
--- a/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-plist
+++ b/devel/libvanessa_socket/pkg-plist
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 bin/vanessa_socket_pipe
 include/vanessa_socket.h
-lib/libvanessa_socket.so.0
-lib/libvanessa_socket.so
-lib/libvanessa_socket.la
 lib/libvanessa_socket.a
+lib/libvanessa_socket.la
+lib/libvanessa_socket.so
+lib/libvanessa_socket.so.3
+libdata/pkgconfig/vanessa-socket.pc