diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
index a8f3ff3dd9a..69e5b176879 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "cpio-2.6";
+  name = "cpio-2.7";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/cpio-2.6.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "25e0e8725bc60ed3460c9cde92752674";
+    url = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.7.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "69ad6cb3d288aafe5f969f68d9fd0fb7";
   };
 }