diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/default.nix
index b49275a6561..7e27736ee7e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,19 @@
-args: with args;
-let inherit (builtins) getAttr;
-    edf = composableDerivation.edf;
-    optionIncLib = name : attr : " -D${name}_INCLUDE_DIR=${getAttr attr args}/incclude"
-                               + " -D${name}_LIBRARY=${getAttr attr args}/lib "; # lib 64?
-in
-composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} {
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, gdal, cmake, qt4, flex, bison, proj, geos, x11, sqlite, gsl,
+  pyqt4, qwt, fcgi, python }:
 
-  buildInputs = [ gdal cmake qt flex bison proj geos x11 sqlite gsl pyqt4];
-    cfgOption = [
-                  # without this option it can't find sqlite libs yet (missing symbols..) (TODO)
-                  "-DWITH_INTERNAL_SQLITE3=TRUE"
-                ];
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "qgis-1.6.0";
 
-  name = "qgis-1.4.0";
+  buildInputs = [ gdal qt4 flex bison proj geos x11 sqlite gsl pyqt4 qwt
+    fcgi ];
+
+  buildNativeInputs = [ cmake python];
+
+  patches = [ ./r14988.diff ];
 
-  # src = args.fetchsvn { url=https://svn.qgis.org/repos/qgis/trunk/qgis;
-  #                md5="ac0560e0a2d4e6258c8639f1e9b56df3"; rev="7704"; };
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/src/qgis_1.4.0.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1nn71j9pnkqcprwvzqnybh6ybl0zp50jj04lm769bnjbxknpxq5v";
+    url = "http://qgis.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0vlz1z3scj3k6nxf3hzfiq7k2773i6xvk6dvj4axs2f4njpnx7pr";
   };
 
   meta = {
@@ -27,18 +22,4 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} {
     # you can choose one of the following licenses:
     license = [ "GPL" ];
   };
-
-  phases = "unpackPhase buildPhase installPhase";
-  buildPhase = ''pwd; mkdir build; cd build;  VERBOSE=1 cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$out ''${cfgOption} ..'';
-
-  postUnpack = ''
-    export CMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH=
-    for i in $buildInputs $propagatedBuildInputs; do
-      CMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH=$i/lib:$CMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH
-    done
-  '';
-
-  #configurePhase="./autogen.sh --prefix=\$out --with-gdal=\$gdal/bin/gdal-config --with-qtdir=\$qt";
-  # buildPhases="unpackPhase buildPhase";
-
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/r14988.diff b/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/r14988.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95d55047e1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/r14988.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Index: qgis/python/core/conversions.sip
+===================================================================
+--- qgis/python/core/conversions.sip	(revision 14323)
++++ qgis/python/core/conversions.sip	(revision 14988)
+@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@
+ 
+ %Feature QSETINT_CONVERSION
++%Feature QSETTYPE_CONVERSION
+ 
+ %ModuleHeaderCode
+@@ -321,5 +322,5 @@
+ %End
+ 
+-
++%If (QSETTYPE_CONVERSION)
+ template <TYPE>
+ %MappedType QSet<TYPE>
+@@ -395,6 +396,5 @@
+ 
+ };
+-
+-
++%End
+ 
+ template<TYPE>
+Index: qgis/python/CMakeLists.txt
+===================================================================
+--- qgis/python/CMakeLists.txt	(revision 14330)
++++ qgis/python/CMakeLists.txt	(revision 14988)
+@@ -44,4 +44,8 @@
+ ENDIF(NOT PYQT4_VERSION_NUM LESS 263941)
+ 
++IF(NOT PYQT4_VERSION_NUM LESS 264194)	# 0x040802
++  SET(SIP_DISABLE_FEATURES ${SIP_DISABLE_FEATURES} QSETTYPE_CONVERSION)
++ENDIF(NOT PYQT4_VERSION_NUM LESS 264194)
++
+ # core module
+ FILE(GLOB sip_files_core core/*.sip)
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/trunk.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/trunk.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e7e79b47a76..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/qgis/trunk.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{qgis, fetchurl,  sourceFromHead, python, sip}:
-qgis.merge {
-
-  name = "qgis-trunk";
-
-  buildInputs = [ sip python ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export PYTHONPATH=$(toPythonPath ${sip})
-  '';
-
-  cfgOption = [
-                # without this option it can't find sqlite libs yet (missing symbols..) (TODO)
-                "-DWITH_INTERNAL_SQLITE3=TRUE"
-                "-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=${python}/bin/python"
-              ];
-
-  # REGION AUTO UPDATE:    { name="qgis"; type="svn"; url="https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/trunk/qgis"; }
-  src = sourceFromHead "qgis-13572.tar.gz"
-               (fetchurl { url = "http://mawercer.de/~nix/repos/qgis-13572.tar.gz"; sha256 = "fd4c0e19919901cbee7ead7522acdbecbf17c5b9050e34ef91f8ea6e2736bec8"; });
-  # END
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4564d010035..36b8a8977c8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7466,26 +7466,7 @@ let
     qt = qt4;
   };
 
-  # doesn't compile yet - in case someone else want's to continue ..
-  # use Trunk because qgisReleased segfaults no resize for now
-  qgis = qgisTrunk;
-  qgisReleased = (import ../applications/misc/qgis) {
-    inherit composableDerivation fetchsvn stdenv flex lib
-            ncurses fetchurl perl cmake gdal geos proj x11
-            gsl libpng zlib bison
-            sqlite glibc fontconfig freetype /* use libc from stdenv ? - to lazy now - Marc */
-            python postgresql pyqt4;
-    inherit (xlibs) libSM libXcursor libXinerama libXrandr libXrender;
-    inherit (xorg) libICE;
-    qt = qt4;
-
-    # optional features
-    # grass = "not yet supported" # cmake -D WITH_GRASS=TRUE  and GRASS_PREFX=..
-  };
-
-  qgisTrunk = callPackage ../applications/misc/qgis/trunk.nix {
-    qgis = qgisReleased;
-  };
+  qgis = callPackage ../applications/misc/qgis {};
 
   yakuake = newScope pkgs.kde4 ../applications/misc/yakuake { };