diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/default.nix
index 459321cb0da2..4195397700e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lib.makeScope newScope (self: with self; {
     inherit system;
   };
 
-  inherit (callPackage ./stage0-posix { }) kaem m2libc mescc-tools mescc-tools-extra writeTextFile writeText runCommand fetchtarball;
+  inherit (callPackage ./stage0-posix { }) kaem m2libc mescc-tools mescc-tools-extra writeTextFile writeText runCommand;
 
   nyacc = callPackage ./mes/nyacc.nix { };
   mes = callPackage ./mes { };
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/default.nix
index 5f33264e2b22..b8d79bde939b 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/default.nix
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ lib.makeScope newScope (self: with self; {
 
   mescc-tools-extra = callPackage ./mescc-tools-extra { };
 
-  inherit (callPackage ./utils.nix { }) derivationWithMeta writeTextFile writeText runCommand fetchtarball;
+  inherit (callPackage ./utils.nix { }) derivationWithMeta writeTextFile writeText runCommand;
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/utils.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/utils.nix
index c2b0c753a93a..bf3d34b96b0a 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/utils.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/utils.nix
@@ -80,24 +80,4 @@ rec {
       PATH = lib.makeBinPath ((env.nativeBuildInputs or []) ++ [ kaem mescc-tools mescc-tools-extra ]);
     } // (builtins.removeAttrs env [ "nativeBuildInputs" ]));
 
-  # Fetch and unpack a .tar.gz file. Does not strip top-level directory
-  fetchtarball =
-    { url
-      # Unlike fetchzip, this hash is of the tarball and not the decompressed output
-    , sha256
-    , name ? baseNameOf (toString url)
-    , postFetch ? ""
-    }:
-    let
-      tarball = fetchurl { inherit url sha256; };
-    in
-    runCommand name {} ''
-      cd ''${TMP}
-      ungz --file ${tarball} --output tmp.tar
-      mkdir ''${out}
-      cd ''${out}
-      untar --file ''${TMP}/tmp.tar
-
-      ${postFetch}
-    '';
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/bootstrappable.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/bootstrappable.nix
index c218e7432271..7db7049fcab9 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/bootstrappable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/bootstrappable.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 { lib
 , runCommand
-, fetchtarball
+, fetchurl
 , mes
 , buildTinyccN
 , mes-libc
@@ -17,10 +17,16 @@
 let
   version = "unstable-2023-04-20";
   rev = "80114c4da6b17fbaabb399cc29f427e368309bc8";
-  src = (fetchtarball {
+  tarball = fetchurl {
     url = "https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc/-/archive/${rev}/tinycc-${rev}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "1a0cw9a62qc76qqn5sjmp3xrbbvsz2dxrw21lrnx9q0s74mwaxbq";
-  }) + "/tinycc-${rev}";
+  };
+  src = (runCommand "tinycc-bootstrappable-${version}-source" {} ''
+    ungz --file ${tarball} --output tinycc.tar
+    mkdir -p ''${out}
+    cd ''${out}
+    untar --file ''${NIX_BUILD_TOP}/tinycc.tar
+  '') + "/tinycc-${rev}";
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Tiny C Compiler's bootstrappable fork";
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/default.nix
index 12e876ec4362..2a3bd2a337e5 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/tinycc/default.nix
@@ -6,16 +6,22 @@
 
 { lib
 , runCommand
-, fetchtarball
+, fetchurl
 , callPackage
 , mes
 }:
 let
   version = "unstable-2023-04-20";
-  src = (fetchtarball {
+  tarball = fetchurl {
     url = "https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/snapshot/86f3d8e33105435946383aee52487b5ddf918140.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "11idrvbwfgj1d03crv994mpbbbyg63j1k64lw1gjy7mkiifw2xap";
-  }) + "/tinycc-86f3d8e";
+  };
+  src = (runCommand "tinycc-${version}-source" {} ''
+    ungz --file ${tarball} --output tinycc.tar
+    mkdir -p ''${out}
+    cd ''${out}
+    untar --file ''${NIX_BUILD_TOP}/tinycc.tar
+  '') + "/tinycc-86f3d8e";
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Small, fast, and embeddable C compiler and interpreter";