diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/gnash/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/gnash/default.nix
index 493d4389ab1..3f964ad4ee1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/gnash/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/gnash/default.nix
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 , libogg, libxml2, libjpeg, mesa, libpng}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnash-0.7.1";
+  name = "gnash-0.7.2";
 
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/gnash-0.7.1.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "d860981aeaac0fc941a28abc3c24223c";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/gnash/0.7.2/gnash-0.7.2.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "ccef0f45be01a4c2992b46c2363a514f";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [libX11 libXext libXi libXmu SDL SDL_mixer GStreamer
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
index 3dd61f53472..78dfd0f9e2c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "ncurses-5.5";
+  name = "ncurses-5.6";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/ncurses-5.5.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "e73c1ac10b4bfc46db43b2ddfd6244ef";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.6.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "b6593abe1089d6aab1551c105c9300e3";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline5.nix
index f2422931ec7..4af9b4111e5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline5.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "readline-5.1";
+  name = "readline-5.2";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/readline-5.1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "7ee5a692db88b30ca48927a13fd60e46";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "e39331f32ad14009b9ff49cc10c5e751";
   };
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ncurses];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/default.nix
index a70268ea45c..c37a829e3bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/default.nix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-import ./automake-1.9.x.nix
+import ./automake-1.10.x.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
index 118d2134620..835eb0eb48a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnutar-1.16";
+  name = "gnutar-1.16.1";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.16.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "d6fe544e834a8f9db6e6c7c2d38ec100";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.16.1.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "d51593461c5ef1f7e37134f22338bb9e";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
index 92cf55f1275..a89a202aaac 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gzip-1.3.3";
+  name = "gzip-1.3.9";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/gzip-1.3.3.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "52eaf713673507d21f7abefee98ba662";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.9.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "7cf923b24b718c418e85a283b2260e14";
   };
   postInstall = "ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip; ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
index e8755f11d49..1e24e3b2c4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "coreutils-6.4";
+  name = "coreutils-6.7";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.4.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "a3806c709c7f063b80612be846a9d88c";
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "a16465d0856cd011a1acc1c21040b7f4";
   };
 }