diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 3aee4857f99..4a26fcbffc1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -9054,12 +9054,6 @@ dont-distribute-packages:
   temporary-resourcet:                            [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
   tempus:                                         [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
   tensor:                                         [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow-core-ops:                            [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow-logging:                             [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow-opgen:                               [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow-ops:                                 [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow-proto:                               [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
-  tensorflow:                                     [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
   term-rewriting:                                 [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
   termbox-bindings:                               [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
   termcolor:                                      [ i686-linux, x86_64-linux, x86_64-darwin ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-tensorflow.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-tensorflow.nix
index dfc93686405..43a3b82923b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-tensorflow.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-tensorflow.nix
@@ -55,13 +55,29 @@ in
   tensorflow-logging = super.tensorflow-logging.override {
     inherit proto-lens;
   };
-  tensorflow-mnist = super.tensorflow-mnist.override {
+  tensorflow-mnist = overrideCabal (super.tensorflow-mnist.override {
     inherit proto-lens;
-  };
+    # https://github.com/tensorflow/haskell/issues/215
+    tensorflow-mnist-input-data = self.tensorflow-mnist-input-data;
+  }) (_drv: { broken = false; });
   tensorflow-mnist-input-data = setSourceRoot "tensorflow-mnist-input-data" (super.callPackage (
     { mkDerivation, base, bytestring, Cabal, cryptonite, directory
     , filepath, HTTP, network-uri, stdenv
     }:
+
+    let
+      fileInfos = {
+        "train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz" = "440fcabf73cc546fa21475e81ea370265605f56be210a4024d2ca8f203523609";
+        "train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz" = "3552534a0a558bbed6aed32b30c495cca23d567ec52cac8be1a0730e8010255c";
+        "t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz"  = "8d422c7b0a1c1c79245a5bcf07fe86e33eeafee792b84584aec276f5a2dbc4e6";
+        "t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz"  = "f7ae60f92e00ec6debd23a6088c31dbd2371eca3ffa0defaefb259924204aec6";
+      };
+      downloads = with pkgs.lib; flip mapAttrsToList fileInfos (name: sha256:
+                    pkgs.fetchurl {
+                      url = "http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/${name}";
+                      inherit sha256;
+                    });
+    in
     mkDerivation {
       pname = "tensorflow-mnist-input-data";
       version = "0.1.0.0";
@@ -71,6 +87,9 @@ in
         base bytestring Cabal cryptonite directory filepath HTTP
         network-uri
       ];
+      preConfigure = pkgs.lib.strings.concatStringsSep "\n" (
+          map (x: "ln -s ${x} data/$(stripHash ${x})") downloads
+        );
       libraryHaskellDepends = [ base ];
       homepage = "https://github.com/tensorflow/haskell#readme";
       description = "Downloader of input data for training MNIST";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtensorflow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtensorflow/default.nix
index b4e616409c4..e6cd140c4e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtensorflow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtensorflow/default.nix
@@ -31,19 +31,19 @@ let
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libtensorflow";
-  version = "1.10.0";
+  version = "1.9.0";
   name = "${pname}-${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/${pname}/${pname}-${tfType}-${system}-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 =
       if system == "linux-x86_64" then
         if cudaSupport
-        then "0v66sscxpyixjrf9yjshl001nix233i6chc61akx0kx7ial4l1wn"
-        else "11sbpcbgdzj8v17mdppfv7v1fn3nbzkdad60gc42y2j6knjbmwxb"
+        then "1q3mh06x344im25z7r3vgrfksfdsi8fh8ldn6y2mf86h4d11yxc3"
+        else "0l9ps115ng5ffzdwphlqmj3jhidps2v5afppdzrbpzmy41xz0z21"
       else if system == "darwin-x86_64" then
         if cudaSupport
         then unavailable
-        else "11p0f77m4wycpc024mh7jx0kbdhgm0wp6ir6dsa8lkcpdb59bn59"
+        else "1qj0v1706w6mczycdsh38h2glyv5d25v62kdn98wxd5rw8f9v657"
       else unavailable;
   };