diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
index 3102c902c34f..f79352bf3ffe 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
     "x86_64-apple-darwin"
     "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
     "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"
-    "x86_64-unknown-freebsd"
+    # we can uncomment that once our bootstrap tarballs are fixed
+    #"x86_64-unknown-freebsd"
   ]
   # Strip most of attributes when evaluating to spare memory usage
 , scrubJobs ? true