diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index af4b15b..5a23b67 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 /man-pages-posix-2003-a.tar.bz2
 /man-pages-additional-20101006.tar.bz2
-/man-pages-3.40.tar.gz
+/man-pages-3.41.tar.xz
diff --git a/man-pages-2.48-passwd.patch b/man-pages-2.48-passwd.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e2f431..0000000
--- a/man-pages-2.48-passwd.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-diff -up man-pages-3.40/man5/passwd.5.orig man-pages-3.40/man5/passwd.5
---- man-pages-3.40/man5/passwd.5.orig	2012-04-27 00:58:39.000000000 +0200
-+++ man-pages-3.40/man5/passwd.5	2012-04-27 14:03:10.113106253 +0200
-@@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ and the encrypted passwords are in
- .IR /etc/shadow ,
- which is readable by the superuser only.
- .PP
-+If the encrypted password, whether in /etc/passwd or in /etc/shadow, is
-+an empty string, login is allowed without even asking for a password.
-+Note that this functionality may be intentionally disabled in applications,
-+or configurable (for example using the "nullok" or "nonull" arguments to
-+pam_unix.so).
-+.PP
-+If the encrypted password in /etc/passwd is "*NP*" (without the quotes),
-+the shadow record should be obtained from a NIS+ server.
-+.PP
- Regardless of whether shadow passwords are used, many system administrators
- use an asterisk (*) in the encrypted password field to make sure
- that this user can not authenticate him- or herself using a
diff --git a/man-pages-3.23-proc.patch b/man-pages-3.23-proc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ad752f..0000000
--- a/man-pages-3.23-proc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -up man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.orig man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5
---- man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.orig	2010-12-03 08:02:02.000000000 +0100
-+++ man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5	2011-05-27 10:07:56.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1795,6 +1795,10 @@ For further details, see
- .I /proc/sys/fs/file-max
- This file defines
- a system-wide limit on the number of open files for all processes.
-+This limit is not applied when a root user (or
-+any user with
-+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
-+privileges) is trying to open a file.
- (See also
- .BR setrlimit (2),
- which can be used by a process to set the per-process limit,
diff --git a/man-pages-3.23-proc_cgroups.patch b/man-pages-3.23-proc_cgroups.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6969df4..0000000
--- a/man-pages-3.23-proc_cgroups.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-diff -up man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.pom man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5
---- man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5.pom	2011-05-27 10:11:52.000000000 +0200
-+++ man-pages-3.32/man5/proc.5	2011-05-27 09:17:37.000000000 +0200
-@@ -94,12 +94,35 @@ to the process at exec time.
- The format is one \fIunsigned long\fP ID
- plus one \fIunsigned long\fP value for each entry.
- The last entry contains two zeros.
--.\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/cgroup and
--.\"       /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/cgroup
--.\" 	  Info in Documentation/cgroups.txt
--.\"       Added in 2.6.24
--.\"	  CONFIG_CGROUPS
--.\"
-+.TP
-+.I /proc/[pid]/cgroup " (since Linux 2.6.24)"
-+This file describes control groups to which the process/task
-+belongs. For each cgroup hierarchy there is one entry of the form
-+.nf
-+.ft CW
-+
-+  5:cpuacct,cpu,cpuset:/daemons
-+(1)         (2)          (3)
-+.ft
-+.fi
-+.IP
-+The numbers in parentheses are labels for the descriptions below:
-+.RS 7
-+.TP 5
-+(1)
-+hierarchy id number
-+.TP
-+(2)
-+set of subsystems bound to the hierarchy
-+.TP
-+(3)
-+control group in the hierarchy to which the process belongs
-+.RE
-+.IP
-+
-+This file is only present if the
-+.B CONFIG_CGROUPS
-+kernel configuration option is enabled.
- .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
- .\"       Added in 2.6.22
- .\"       "Clears page referenced bits shown in smaps output"
diff --git a/man-pages-3.24-mmap64.patch b/man-pages-3.24-mmap64.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e01e597..0000000
--- a/man-pages-3.24-mmap64.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-diff -up man-pages-3.24/man3/mmap64.3.pom man-pages-3.24/man3/mmap64.3
---- man-pages-3.24/man3/mmap64.3.pom	2010-02-26 05:46:32.000000000 +0100
-+++ man-pages-3.24/man3/mmap64.3	2010-06-04 08:35:13.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1 +1 @@
--.so man2/mmap2.2
-+.so man2/mmap.2
diff --git a/man-pages-3.27-sd.patch b/man-pages-3.27-sd.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e6f888..0000000
--- a/man-pages-3.27-sd.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -up man-pages-3.27/man4/sd.4pom man-pages-3.27/man4/sd.4
---- man-pages-3.27/man4/sd.4pom	2010-09-23 17:20:13.000000000 +0200
-+++ man-pages-3.27/man4/sd.4	2010-09-23 17:20:48.000000000 +0200
-@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Forces a reread of the SCSI disk partiti
- No parameter is needed.
- 
- The
--.BR scsi (4)
-+.BR scsi
- .BR ioctl (2)
- operations are also supported.
- If the
diff --git a/man-pages.spec b/man-pages.spec
index 9fd4768..de0731b 100644
--- a/man-pages.spec
+++ b/man-pages.spec
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 
 Summary: Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project
 Name: man-pages
-Version: 3.40
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 3.41
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+ and GPL+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
 Group: Documentation
 URL: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
-Source0: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/download/man-pages-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/download/man-pages-%{version}.tar.xz
 # POSIX man pages
 Source1: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix-%{posix_version}-%{posix_release}.tar.bz2
 # additional man-pages, the source tarball is fedora only
@@ -16,21 +16,20 @@ Source1: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/man-page
 Source2: man-pages-additional-20101006.tar.bz2
 Patch28: man-pages-2.46-nscd.patch
 Patch36: man-pages-2.63-unimplemented.patch
-Patch45: man-pages-2.48-passwd.patch
 Patch46: man-pages-2.51-nscd-conf.patch
+# Declined by upstream
 Patch53: man-pages-2.78-stream.patch
 Patch57: man-pages-3.22-nsswitch.conf.patch
-Patch58: man-pages-3.23-proc.patch
 Patch59: man-pages-3.23-ld.so.patch
 Patch60: man-pages-3.22-sched_setaffinity.patch
+# Declined by upstream
 Patch63: man-pages-3.24-getnameinfo.patch
-Patch67: man-pages-3.24-mmap64.patch
-Patch69: man-pages-3.27-sd.patch
+# Declined by upstream
 Patch70: man-pages-3.29-uri.patch
 Patch71: man-pages-posix-2003-awk.patch
 Patch72: man-pages-posix-2003-man.patch
 Patch73: man-pages-posix-2003-printf.patch
-#Resolves: #647269
+#Resolves: #647269, # Declined by upstream
 Patch75: man-pages-3.30-prctl.patch
 #Resolves: #652870
 Patch76: man-pages-3.32-strtol.patch
@@ -44,8 +43,6 @@ Patch79: man-pages-3.32-spellch.patch
 Patch80: man-pages-3.35-printf.patch
 #resolves: #698149
 Patch82: man-pages-3.32-host.patch
-#resolves: #705888 
-Patch83: man-pages-3.23-proc_cgroups.patch
 #resolves: #723578
 Patch84: man-pages-3.35-readlink3p.patch
 #Resolves: #655961
@@ -66,16 +63,12 @@ mv man-pages-posix-%{posix_version}-%{posix_release}/* ./
 rmdir man-pages-posix-%{posix_version}-%{posix_release}
 %patch28 -p1
 %patch36 -p1
-%patch45 -p1
 %patch46 -p1
 %patch53 -p1
 %patch57 -p1
-%patch58 -p1
 %patch59 -p1
 %patch60 -p1
 %patch63 -p1
-%patch67 -p1
-%patch69 -p1
 %patch70 -p1
 %patch71 -p1
 %patch72 -p1
@@ -87,7 +80,6 @@ rmdir man-pages-posix-%{posix_version}-%{posix_release}
 %patch79 -p1
 %patch80 -p1
 %patch82 -p1
-%patch83 -p1
 %patch84 -p1
 
 ### And now remove those we are not going to use:
@@ -144,6 +136,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %lang(en) %{_mandir}/en/man*/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 17 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com> - 3.41-1
+- resolves: #820901
+  update to 3.41
+
 * Fri Apr 27 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com> - 3.40-2
 - related: #797857
   fixed broken source file
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index efd938f..95e626d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 7c78aff03c0a6767ba483d34f19e4b09  man-pages-posix-2003-a.tar.bz2
 6cea268fa2debf9b6440ee5c37cd4bc8  man-pages-additional-20101006.tar.bz2
-41f40b4890c2f463840ed7070e68ab3a  man-pages-3.40.tar.gz
+7395d284fa1b9e112006d736865781b0  man-pages-3.41.tar.xz