diff --git a/sys-apps/ed/ed-1.7.recipe b/sys-apps/ed/ed-1.13.recipe
similarity index 53%
rename from sys-apps/ed/ed-1.7.recipe
rename to sys-apps/ed/ed-1.13.recipe
index c088d72fef4..ad2606ddcf9 100644
--- a/sys-apps/ed/ed-1.7.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/ed/ed-1.13.recipe
@@ -3,15 +3,20 @@ DESCRIPTION="GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, \
 display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and \
 via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in \
 the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.
-Ed is the \"standard\" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available."
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
-COPYRIGHT="1992-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
+Ed is the \"standard\" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor \
+for Unix, and thus widely available."
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
+COPYRIGHT="1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
 REVISION="1"
-SOURCE_URI="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ed-1.7.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="894241019a5ff2b7816d20c5bd5a7048fb8f336ca52e97b3cc88d45b16472031"
+# Upstream only ships lziped tarballs, not usable on pure x86_gcc2.
+#SOURCE_URI="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ed-$portVersion.tar.lz"
+#CHECKSUM_SHA256="cd66c54a53cd6ef35a217556e7b2b2fdd973ca2708f4fc41636b0bc06388c7d3"
+# So use gziped tarball from fossies until we have lzip for x86_gcc2.
+SOURCE_URI="http://fossies.org/linux/privat/ed-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="f9e2a8c95dff14fab315680966ad3037afecdf089c2d0c281e267bf1ae836b0f"
 
-ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 
 PROVIDES="
 	ed = $portVersion compat >= 1