diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/CouchDB/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/CouchDB/default.nix
index a7035aa7033..4dac140d122 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/CouchDB/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/CouchDB/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   buildDepends = [ HTTP json mtl network utf8String ];
   testDepends = [ HTTP HUnit json mtl network utf8String ];
   doCheck = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/arjunguha/haskell-couchdb/";
     description = "CouchDB interface";