diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/default.nix
index feb8fa4fbc1d..6127473343c1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/default.nix
@@ -1,39 +1,28 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchpatch, fetchFromGitHub, ostree, rpm, which, autoconf, automake, libtool, pkgconfig,
-  gobject-introspection, gtk-doc, libxml2, libxslt, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_42, gperf, cmake,
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ostree, rpm, which, autoconf, automake, libtool, pkgconfig, cargo, rustc,
+  gobject-introspection, gtk-doc, libxml2, libxslt, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_42, docbook_xml_dtd_43, gperf, cmake,
   libcap, glib, systemd, json-glib, libarchive, libsolv, librepo, polkit,
   bubblewrap, pcre, check, python }:
 
-let
-  libglnx-src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "GNOME";
-    repo = "libglnx";
-    rev = "97b5c08d2f93dc93ba296a84bbd2a5ab9bd8fc97";
-    sha256 = "0cz4x63f6ys7dln54g6mrr7hksvqwz78wdc8qb7zr1h2cp1azcvs";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "rpm-ostree";
+  version = "2019.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/projectatomic/${pname}/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "14qk8mq5yc67j3wl3fa9xnhh8ii8x5qdiavf7ybw7mp4ma4lwa8k";
   };
 
-  libdnf-src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "rpm-software-management";
-    repo = "libdnf";
-    rev = "b3fcc53f6f3baf4f51f836f5e1eb54eb82d5df49";
-    sha256 = "15nl9x4blyc9922rvz7iq56yy8hxhpsf31cs3ag7aypqpfx3czci";
-  };
-
-  version = "2018.5";
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "rpm-ostree-${version}";
+  patches = [
+    # gobject-introspection requires curl in cflags
+    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50953#issuecomment-449777169
+    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/50953#issuecomment-452177080
+    ./fix-introspection-build.patch
+  ];
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" "man" "devdoc" ];
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    owner = "projectatomic";
-    repo = "rpm-ostree";
-    sha256 = "0y37hr8mmrsww4ka2hlqmz7wp57ibzhah4j87yg8q8dks5hxcbsx";
-  };
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [
-    pkgconfig which autoconf automake libtool cmake gperf
-    gobject-introspection gtk-doc libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_42
+    pkgconfig which autoconf automake libtool cmake gperf cargo rustc
+    gobject-introspection gtk-doc libxml2 libxslt docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_42 docbook_xml_dtd_43
   ];
   buildInputs = [
     libcap ostree rpm glib systemd polkit bubblewrap
@@ -41,14 +30,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
     pcre check python
   ];
 
-  patches = [
-    # Use gdbus-codegen from PATH
-    (fetchpatch {
-      url = https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/commit/315406d8cd0937e786723986e88d376c88806c60.patch;
-      sha256 = "073yfa62515kyf58s0sz56w0a40062lh761y2y4assqipybwxbvp";
-    })
-  ];
-
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-gtk-doc"
     "--with-bubblewrap=${bubblewrap}/bin/bwrap"
@@ -57,16 +38,9 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   dontUseCmakeConfigure = true;
 
   prePatch = ''
-    rmdir libglnx libdnf
-    cp --no-preserve=mode -r ${libglnx-src} libglnx
-    cp --no-preserve=mode -r ${libdnf-src} libdnf
-
     # According to #cmake on freenode, libdnf should bundle the FindLibSolv.cmake module
     cp ${libsolv}/share/cmake/Modules/FindLibSolv.cmake libdnf/cmake/modules/
 
-    # libdnf normally wants sphinx to build its hawkey manpages, but we don't care about those manpages since we don't use hawkey
-    substituteInPlace configure.ac --replace 'cmake \' 'cmake -DWITH_MAN=off \'
-
     # Let's not hardcode the rpm-gpg path...
     substituteInPlace libdnf/libdnf/dnf-keyring.cpp \
       --replace '"/etc/pki/rpm-gpg"' 'getenv("LIBDNF_RPM_GPG_PATH_OVERRIDE") ? getenv("LIBDNF_RPM_GPG_PATH_OVERRIDE") : "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg"'
@@ -84,4 +58,3 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
     platforms = platforms.linux;
   };
 }
-
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/fix-introspection-build.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/fix-introspection-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b82ad5b24b5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/rpm-ostree/fix-introspection-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
+ 				     ostree-1 >= 2018.9
+ 				     libsystemd
+ 				     polkit-gobject-1
+-				     rpm librepo libsolv
++				     rpm librepo libsolv libcurl
+ 				     libarchive])
+ 
+ dnl -ldl: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/commit/1f832597fc83fda6cb8daf48c4495a9e1590774c