diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.15.1.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.15.1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 77dc1a3c76e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.15.1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnutar-1.15.1";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/tar-1.15.1.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "57da3c38f8e06589699548a34d5a5d07";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.17.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.17.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c87b855ed63..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.17.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnutar-1.17";
-  src = 
-	fetchurl {
-		url = mirror://gnu/tar/tar-1.17.tar.bz2;
-		sha256 = "14m49kya1swilivc2laycw3p3y3i1s3q0vkhwjan58aiv8fh5y8r";
-	};
-  patches = [./implausible.patch];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.18.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.18.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index aab315f673e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/1.18.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnutar-1.17";
-  src = 
-	fetchurl {
-		url = mirror://gnu/tar/tar-1.18.tar.bz2;
-		sha256 = "0png2yqkw333acf55k0hjs0mcx1s0w0gkf50pa6hv3kw8bh4x524";
-	};
-  patches = [./implausible.patch ./gnulib-futimens.patch];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 098e569f6d2..4f8ba0ccd92 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -803,10 +803,6 @@ let
       inherit fetchurl stdenv;
     });
 
-  gnutar151 = import ../tools/archivers/gnutar/1.15.1.nix {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
-  };
-
   graphviz = import ../tools/graphics/graphviz {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig libpng libjpeg expat x11 yacc
       libtool fontconfig gd;