diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.49-headers.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.49-headers.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..58c0c19a17bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/boost/1.49-headers.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "boost-1.49.0-headers";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/boost/boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0g0d33942rm073jgqqvj3znm3rk45b2y2lplfjpyg9q7amzqlx6x";
+  };
+
+  phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/include
+    tar xvf $src -C $out/include --strip-components=1 boost_1_49_0/boost
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://boost.org/";
+    description = "Boost C++ Library Collection";
+    license = "boost-license";
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.viric ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 28aa478f678f..f6df2669d936 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3276,6 +3276,7 @@ let
   boost147 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.47.nix { };
   boost148 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.48.nix { };
   boost149 = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.49.nix { };
+  boost149headers = callPackage ../development/libraries/boost/1.49-headers.nix { };
   boost = boost149;
 
   # A Boost build with all library variants enabled.  Very large (about 250 MB).