diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bf8673c4c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-requests/patches/use-system-cacerts.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- requests/certs.py.orig	2017-05-29 20:09:29.000000000 +0200
++++ requests/certs.py	2017-06-06 13:06:31.803000513 +0200
+@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
+ environment, you can change the definition of where() to return a separately
+ packaged CA bundle.
+ """
+-from certifi import where
++def where():
++    return '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
+ 
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
+     print(where())
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template b/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
index b2d3b6ea45d..1a5e497ad60 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-requests/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'python-requests'
 pkgname=python-requests
-version=2.14.2
+version=2.17.3
 revision=1
 noarch=yes
 wrksrc="requests-${version}"
@@ -13,18 +13,10 @@ maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://python-requests.org/"
 license="Apache-2.0"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/r/requests/requests-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=a274abba399a23e8713ffd2b5706535ae280ebe2b8069ee6a941cb089440d153
+checksum=8d29f97ed1541709b57caddb77bb20592411d7ca10ec4f03275f49ee8456e225
 
-post_install() {
-	# replace bundled copy of cacert, chardet, urllib3, and idna
-	for py_sitelib in $py2_sitelib $py3_sitelib; do
-		rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/cacert.pem
-		rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/packages/{chardet,urllib3,idna}
-		ln -sf ../../chardet ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/packages/chardet
-		ln -sf ../../urllib3 ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/packages/urllib3
-		ln -sf ../../idna ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/packages/idna
-		ln -sf /etc/ssl/cert.pem ${DESTDIR}/${py_sitelib}/requests/cacert.pem
-	done
+pre_build() {
+	sed -i '/certifi/d' setup.py
 }
 
 python3-requests_package() {