diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
index ba7e3e93c98..3efd4b61b8b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-start/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildOcaml, ocsigen-toolkit, eliom, ocaml_pcre, pgocaml, macaque, safepass, yojson, ocsigen_deriving, ocsigen_server
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildOcaml, ocsigen-toolkit, eliom, ocaml_pcre, pgocaml, macaque, safepass, yojson, ocsigen_deriving, ocsigen_server
 , js_of_ocaml-camlp4
+, resource-pooling
 }:
 
 buildOcaml rec
 {
   name = "ocsigen-start";
-  version = "1.1.0";
+  version = "1.2.0";
 
   buildInputs = [ eliom js_of_ocaml-camlp4 ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pgocaml macaque safepass ocaml_pcre ocsigen-toolkit yojson ocsigen_deriving ocsigen_server ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pgocaml macaque safepass ocaml_pcre ocsigen-toolkit yojson ocsigen_deriving ocsigen_server resource-pooling ];
 
   patches = [ ./templates-dir.patch ];
 
@@ -16,13 +17,13 @@ buildOcaml rec
   substituteInPlace "src/os_db.ml" --replace "citext" "text"
   '';
   
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/ocsigen/${name}/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "09cw6qzcld0m1qm66mbjg9gw8l6dynpw3fzhm3kfx5ldh0afgvjq";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ocsigen";
+    repo = name;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "11sn673vhs08z8dq7ajnaz923kg82vvz9z5v6zq171y4zgg901zj";
   };
 
-  createFindlibDestdir = true;
-
   meta = {
     homepage = http://ocsigen.org/ocsigen-start;
     description = "Eliom application skeleton";