diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/btrfs-set-received-uuid.c b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/btrfs-set-received-uuid.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 483ec5f84155..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/btrfs-set-received-uuid.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-/*
-btrfs receive currently mandates that incremental receives can only be performed on a parent subvolume
-that was also received. This means you cannot apply it to (snapshotted) subvolumes you still have on disk, 
-as they were not received themselves.
-
-This small utility allows you to set the received_uuid of a subvolume, tricking btrfs receive into using it.
-
-found on btrfs mailing list
-read the discussion here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/21922
-*/
-
-#define _GNU_SOURCE
-
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <sys/stat.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <uuid/uuid.h>
-#include <sys/ioctl.h>
-
-#include "ctree.h"
-#include "ioctl.h"
-#include "send-utils.h"
-
-#define CLEAR(var) memset(&var, 0, sizeof(var))
-
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-	int ret, fd;
-	struct subvol_uuid_search sus;
-	struct btrfs_ioctl_received_subvol_args rs_args;
-	struct subvol_info *si;
-	char uuidbuf[37], parent_uuidbuf[37], received_uuidbuf[37];
-
-
-	if (argc != 3 && argc != 4) {
-		printf("usage: btrfs-set-received-uuid btrfs-mountpoint src-subvolume-path-relative-to-mountpoint [dest-absolute-subvolume-path]\n");
-		exit(1);
-	}
-
-	printf("opening srcmnt %s\n", argv[1]);
-	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_NOATIME);
-	if (fd < 0) {
-		printf("failed to open srcmnt %s! %s\n", argv[1], strerror(errno));
-		exit(2);
-	}
-
-	puts("initializing sub search");
-	CLEAR(sus);
-	ret = subvol_uuid_search_init(fd, &sus);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		printf("failed to initialize sub search! %s\n", strerror(-ret));
-		exit(3);
-	}
-	
-	printf("searching srcsub %s\n", argv[2]);
-	si = subvol_uuid_search(&sus, 0, NULL, 0, argv[2], subvol_search_by_path);
-	if (!si) {
-		puts("srcsub not found!");
-		exit(4);
-	}
-
-	uuid_unparse(si->uuid,                   uuidbuf);
-	uuid_unparse(si->parent_uuid,     parent_uuidbuf);
-	uuid_unparse(si->received_uuid, received_uuidbuf);
-
-	printf("\nsrcsub found:\n"
-	       "         uuid=%s\n"
-	       "  parent_uuid=%s\n"
-	       "received_uuid=%s\n"
-	       "ctransid=%Lu otransid=%Lu stransid=%Lu rtransid=%Lu\n\n",
-	       uuidbuf, parent_uuidbuf, received_uuidbuf,
-	       (unsigned long long)(si->ctransid),
-	       (unsigned long long)(si->otransid),
-	       (unsigned long long)(si->stransid),
-	       (unsigned long long)(si->rtransid));
-
-	if (argc == 3)
-		goto done;
-
-	printf("opening dst subvol %s\n", argv[3]);
-	fd = open(argv[3], O_RDONLY | O_NOATIME);
-	if (fd < 0) {
-		printf("failed to open dst subvol %s. %s\n", argv[3], strerror(errno));
-		exit(5);
-	}
-
-	printf("\nhere we go with BTRFS_IOC_SET_RECEIVED_SUBVOL:\n"
-	       "dstsub.received_uuid = srcsub.uuid == %s\n"
-	       "dstsub.stransid = srcsub.ctransid == %Lu\n\n",
-	       uuidbuf, (unsigned long long)(si->ctransid));
-
-	CLEAR(rs_args);
-	memcpy(rs_args.uuid, si->uuid, BTRFS_UUID_SIZE);
-	rs_args.stransid = si->ctransid;
-
-	ret = ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_SET_RECEIVED_SUBVOL, &rs_args);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		printf("BTRFS_IOC_SET_RECEIVED_SUBVOL failed: %s", strerror(-ret));
-		exit(6);
-	}
-
-done:
-	printf("done.\n");
-	exit(0);
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/default.nix
index 0661755d2e17..f25332f4cba8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfsprogs/default.nix
@@ -1,35 +1,18 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, zlib, libuuid, acl, attr, e2fsprogs, lzo }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, attr, acl, zlib, libuuid, e2fsprogs, lzo }:
 
-let version = "0.20pre20130705"; in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "btrfs-progs-v3.12";
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "btrfs-progs-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-progs.git";
-    rev = "194aa4a1bd6447bb545286d0bcb0b0be8204d79f";
-    sha256 = "07c6762c9873cdcc1b9b3be0b412ba14b83457d8f5608d3dd945953b5e06f0f2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/kernel/people/mason/btrfs-progs/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1pwcjf9jqdiy8445r1xkazqa07xmapnn0ylyz7yzphci3ib66zh9";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ zlib libuuid acl attr e2fsprogs lzo ];
+  buildInputs = [ attr acl zlib libuuid e2fsprogs lzo ];
 
   # for btrfs to get the rpath to libgcc_s, needed for pthread_cancel to work
   NIX_CFLAGS_LINK = "-lgcc_s";
 
-  postPatch = ''
-    cp ${./btrfs-set-received-uuid.c} btrfs-set-received-uuid.c
-  '';
-
-  postBuild = ''
-    gcc -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DBTRFS_FLAT_INCLUDES \
-        -fPIC -g -O1 -luuid -o btrfs-set-received-uuid rbtree.o send-utils.o btrfs-list.o \
-        btrfs-set-received-uuid.c
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    cp btrfs-set-received-uuid $out/bin
-  '';
-
   makeFlags = "prefix=$(out)";
 
   meta = {