diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/hasktags/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/hasktags/default.nix
index 36b3739a140..03dfaee8786 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/hasktags/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/hasktags/default.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ cabal.mkDerivation (self: {
   isLibrary = true;
   isExecutable = true;
   buildDepends = [ filepath json utf8String ];
+  jailbreak = true;
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://github.com/MarcWeber/hasktags";
     description = "Produces ctags \"tags\" and etags \"TAGS\" files for Haskell programs";