diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
index 94d861652722..353cd9f40bce 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, noSysDirs, zlib, cross ? null, gold ? false, bison ? null, flex2535 ? null, bc ? null, dejagnu ? null }:
 
 let basename = "binutils-2.21.1a"; in
-stdenv.mkDerivation ( rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = basename + stdenv.lib.optionalString (cross != null) "-${cross.config}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
@@ -65,9 +65,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ( rec {
        collision due to the ld/as wrappers/symlinks in the latter. */
     priority = "10";
   };
-} // (stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs gold { 
-  postInstall = ''
-    rm $out/bin/ld
-    ln -sf $out/bin/ld.gold $out/bin/ld
-  '';
-} ) )
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/hydra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/hydra/default.nix
index 3dae4c7c6eee..caa277bfbf5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/hydra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/hydra/default.nix
@@ -40,19 +40,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "hydra-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1264023/download/2/hydra-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "62cecc2da9cb0353ab4eb1f66b6783c0195421c35ba6b6eace9d3b56a9275631";
+    url = http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1142240/download/2/hydra-0.1pre27592.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0197bcfkabqqv7611fh9kjabfm0nfci8kanfaa59hqwf3h6fmpwz";
   };
 
   configureFlags = "--with-nix=${nix}";
 
   buildInputs = [ perl makeWrapper libtool nix unzip nukeReferences pkgconfig boehmgc ] ++ perldeps ;
 
-  hydraPath = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep ":" (map (p: "${p}/bin") ( 
-    [ libxslt sqlite subversion openssh nix coreutils findutils
-      gzip bzip2 lzma gnutar unzip git mercurial gnused graphviz
-      rpm dpkg cdrkit
-    ]));
+  hydraPath = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep ":" (map (p: "${p}/bin") ( [
+    libxslt sqlite subversion openssh nix coreutils findutils
+    gzip bzip2 lzma gnutar unzip git mercurial gnused graphviz
+    rpm dpkg cdrkit]));
 
   postInstall = ''
     for i in "$out/bin/"*; do