diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/crossbeam-ppcle.patch b/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/crossbeam-ppcle.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 36d9256e107..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/crossbeam-ppcle.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/crossbeam-utils/no_atomic.rs
-+++ b/crossbeam-utils/no_atomic.rs
-@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ const NO_ATOMIC_64: &[&str] = &[
-     "powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu",
-     "powerpc-unknown-linux-gnuspe",
-     "powerpc-unknown-linux-musl",
-+    "powerpcle-unknown-linux-gnu",
-+    "powerpcle-unknown-linux-musl",
-     "powerpc-unknown-netbsd",
-     "powerpc-unknown-openbsd",
-     "powerpc-wrs-vxworks",
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/template b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
index e557bbe2080..09be821c96e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cargo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'cargo'
 pkgname=cargo
-version=1.64.0
+version=1.68.2
 revision=1
-create_wrksrc=yes
+_cargo_revision=0.69.1
 build_helper=rust
 hostmakedepends="cargo-bootstrap rust python3 curl cmake pkg-config zlib-devel"
 makedepends="rust libcurl-devel openssl-devel"
@@ -11,10 +11,8 @@ short_desc="Rust package manager"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
 license="MIT, Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://crates.io/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/archive/rust-${version}.tar.gz
- https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/archive/refs/tags/crossbeam-utils-0.8.8.tar.gz"
-checksum="8363ee37e1ff85c7322f0619087b1230f43852dcb26316627a1a703ed20ea4b7
- 52c451910203cd9002cc4b85cff95f45c6ba245392801e80d7898ca5c3c3ab29"
+distfiles="https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/archive/refs/tags/${_cargo_revision}.tar.gz"
+checksum=8e41d61c7d360ad934a037489ce7e404ad4bdd0e71286ca73de8380656deccaa
 replaces="cargo-tree>=0"
 
 build_options="static bindist"
@@ -28,21 +26,6 @@ if [ -z "$_build_static" ]; then
 	makedepends+=" libgit2-devel"
 fi
 
-post_extract() {
-	mv cargo-rust-${version}/* .
-	mv crossbeam-crossbeam-utils-* crossbeam-utils
-}
-
-post_patch() {
-	rm crossbeam-utils/crossbeam-utils/no_atomic.rs
-	cp crossbeam-utils/no_atomic.rs crossbeam-utils/crossbeam-utils
-
-	cat >> Cargo.toml <<- EOF
-		[patch.crates-io]
-		crossbeam-utils = { path = './crossbeam-utils/crossbeam-utils' }
-	EOF
-}
-
 do_build() {
 	local cargs