diff --git a/sysutils/py-tsk/Makefile b/sysutils/py-tsk/Makefile
index a4f9e4bdc11..8b58cbb3f67 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-tsk/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/py-tsk/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 COMMENT =	Python bindings for The Sleuth Kit (libtsk)
 
-MODPY_DISTV =	20200117
+MODPY_DISTV =	20260418
 DISTNAME =	pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}
 PKGNAME =	py-tsk-${MODPY_DISTV}
-REVISION =	11
+
+# download a copy from github archive as well, to fill in the incomplete
+# tests dir from the pypi sdist (this is simpler than fetching the whole
+# port from github as it needs a submodule + autoconf scripts generating)
+DIST_TUPLE =   github py4n6 pytsk ${MODPY_DISTV} .
 
 CATEGORIES =	sysutils
 
 HOMEPAGE =	https://github.com/py4n6/pytsk/
+MAINTAINER =	Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@openbsd.org>
 
 # Apache v2
 PERMIT_PACKAGE =	Yes
 
 MODULES =		lang/python
-# so that we get gawk poisoning in the sleuthkit part
-MODULES +=		gnu
+## so that we get gawk poisoning in the sleuthkit part
+#MODULES +=		gnu
 
 MODPY_PI =		Yes
 MODPY_PYBUILD =		setuptools
 
-WANTLIB += talloc tsk ${MODPY_WANTLIB}
+WANTLIB += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} m
 
 # C++11
 COMPILER=	base-clang ports-gcc
 
-pre-configure:
-		${SUBST_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/setup.py ${WRKSRC}/setup.py.new
-		mv ${WRKSRC}/setup.py.new ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
+post-extract:
+	mv ${WRKDIR}/pytsk-${MODPY_DISTV}/tests/* ${WRKSRC}/tests/
 
-LIB_DEPENDS =	sysutils/sleuthkit \
-		devel/libtalloc
-TEST_DEPENDS =	sysutils/py-tsk=${MODPY_DISTV}
-
-# it needs test_data/* in the Github repository
+# Ran 30 tests in 0.094s
 do-test:
-	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${MODPY_BIN} run_tests.py
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} ${MODPY_BIN} run_tests.py
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/py-tsk/distinfo b/sysutils/py-tsk/distinfo
index b721324b210..a1f0fa359fc 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-tsk/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/py-tsk/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
-SHA256 (pytsk3-20200117.tar.gz) = VhdxZKNY6YuqJYKWqi6aUJME3I2rBTq6w0dDWgl42WI=
-SIZE (pytsk3-20200117.tar.gz) = 3060827
+SHA256 (py4n6-pytsk-20260418.tar.gz) = iRMbAaV1TqKFyBfECVaixzqD3VsR2mPwgWSr8W9/R3o=
+SHA256 (pytsk3-20260418.tar.gz) = ZcXc0fkaXH19fuc8iX2pHBW+MsrXIwFLOXeUa6M7nzU=
+SIZE (py4n6-pytsk-20260418.tar.gz) = 100337
+SIZE (pytsk3-20260418.tar.gz) = 3190862
diff --git a/sysutils/py-tsk/patches/patch-setup_py b/sysutils/py-tsk/patches/patch-setup_py
index 7ec9533e9ee..e69de29bb2d 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-tsk/patches/patch-setup_py
+++ b/sysutils/py-tsk/patches/patch-setup_py
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-Index: setup.py
---- setup.py.orig
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class BuildExtCommand(build_ext):
-     # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
-     self.define = self.configure_source_tree(compiler)
- 
--    libtsk_path = os.path.join("sleuthkit", "tsk")
-+    libtsk_path = os.path.join("${LOCALBASE}", "include", "tsk")
- 
-     if not os.access("pytsk3.c", os.R_OK):
-       # Generate the Python binding code (pytsk3.c).
-@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ class ProjectBuilder(object):
-     self._argv = argv
- 
-     # The path to the sleuthkit/tsk directory.
--    self._libtsk_path = os.path.join("sleuthkit", "tsk")
-+    self._libtsk_path = os.path.join("${LOCALBASE}", "include", "tsk")
- 
-     # Paths under the sleuthkit/tsk directory which contain files we need
-     # to compile.
-@@ -400,13 +400,13 @@ class ProjectBuilder(object):
-     # The args for the extension builder.
-     self.extension_args = {
-         "define_macros": [],
--        "include_dirs": ["talloc", self._libtsk_path, "sleuthkit", "."],
--        "library_dirs": [],
--        "libraries": []}
-+        "include_dirs": [".", os.path.join("${LOCALBASE}", "include")],
-+        "library_dirs": [os.path.join("${LOCALBASE}","lib")],
-+        "libraries": ["tsk", "talloc"]}
- 
-     # The sources to build.
-     self._source_files = [
--        "class.c", "error.c", "tsk3.c", "pytsk3.c", "talloc/talloc.c"]
-+        "class.c", "error.c", "tsk3.c", "pytsk3.c"]
- 
-     # Path to the top of the unpacked sleuthkit sources.
-     self._sleuthkit_path = "sleuthkit"
diff --git a/sysutils/py-tsk/pkg/PLIST b/sysutils/py-tsk/pkg/PLIST
index 149fd4d23af..886bcf72e4c 100644
--- a/sysutils/py-tsk/pkg/PLIST
+++ b/sysutils/py-tsk/pkg/PLIST
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/
 lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/METADATA
 lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/RECORD
 lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/WHEEL
-lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/licenses/
-lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/licenses/LICENSE
 lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3-${MODPY_DISTV}.dist-info/top_level.txt
 @so lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/pytsk3.${MODPY_PYC_MAGIC_TAG}so