diff --git a/base/bison/bison.desc b/base/bison/bison.desc
index ec8032ca5..cf0aa372e 100644
--- a/base/bison/bison.desc
+++ b/base/bison/bison.desc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../bison/bison.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2009 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.3
+[V] 2.4.1
 [P] X -1-3-----9 109.400
 
-[D] 2863861848 bison-2.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/
+[D] 252354411 bison-2.4.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/
 
diff --git a/base/bison/disable-examples.patch b/base/bison/disable-examples.patch
index 112113cc1..39032caf4 100644
--- a/base/bison/disable-examples.patch
+++ b/base/bison/disable-examples.patch
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../bison/disable-examples.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2009 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -13,14 +14,15 @@
 # Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
 # version.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
---- bison-2.1/Makefile.in.orig	2005-09-22 23:32:29.210979394 +0200
-+++ bison-2.1/Makefile.in	2005-09-22 23:32:37.314599737 +0200
-@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
- sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
- target_alias = @target_alias@
+
+--- ./Makefile.in.orig	2008-12-11 19:05:53.000000000 -0300
++++ ./Makefile.in	2009-07-27 15:09:52.000000000 -0400
+@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
+ top_builddir = @top_builddir@
+ top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
  ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
--SUBDIRS = build-aux po runtime-po lib data src doc examples tests
-+SUBDIRS = build-aux po runtime-po lib data src doc tests
+-SUBDIRS = build-aux po runtime-po lib data src doc examples tests etc
++SUBDIRS = build-aux po runtime-po lib data src doc tests etc
  aclocal_DATA = m4/bison-i18n.m4
- EXTRA_DIST = GNUmakefile Makefile.cfg Makefile.maint \
-   OChangeLog PACKAGING
+ EXTRA_DIST = .prev-version .version cfg.mk maint.mk \
+   OChangeLog PACKAGING \