diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/default.nix
index d01b08a14343..02a214259c79 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage {
-  pname = "pcstat-unstable";
-  version = "2017-05-28";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/tobert/pcstat";
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "pcstat";
+  version = "0.0.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    rev    = "91a7346e5b462a61e876c0574cb1ba331a6a5ac5";
-    owner  = "tobert";
-    repo   = "pcstat";
-    sha256 = "88853e42d16c05e580af4fb8aa815a84ea0fc43e3a25e19c85e649a5f5a2874c";
+    owner = "tobert";
+    repo = "pcstat";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-rN6oqhvrzMBhwNLm8+r4rZWZYZUhOq2h764KVhSycNo=";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-1y6rzarkFNX8G4E9FzCLfWxULbdNYK3DeelNCJ+7Y9Q=";
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 809bde1122f3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/pcstat/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/sys";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/sys";
-      rev = "d38bf781f16e180a1b2ad82697d2f81d7b7ecfac";
-      sha256 = "0eedd518ab68c6dfd431a41709d9888bbc13ed31ff64d69dcbd947442b3aaa04";
-    };
-  }
-]