diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/docker/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/docker/default.nix
index f2a1378b8b2..9c60282b7b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/docker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/docker/default.nix
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ rec {
       sourceURL = "docker://${imageName}@${imageDigest}";
       destNameTag = "${finalImageName}:${finalImageTag}";
     } ''
-      skopeo --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceURL" "docker-archive://$out:$destNameTag"
+      skopeo --insecure-policy --tmpdir=$TMPDIR --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceURL" "docker-archive://$out:$destNameTag"
     '';
 
   # We need to sum layer.tar, not a directory, hence tarsum instead of nix-hash.
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/docker/nix-prefetch-docker b/pkgs/build-support/docker/nix-prefetch-docker
index 839dc87487a..bf01384ccdb 100755
--- a/pkgs/build-support/docker/nix-prefetch-docker
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/docker/nix-prefetch-docker
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ finalImageTag=
 hashType=$NIX_HASH_ALGO
 hashFormat=$hashFormat
 format=nix
+skopeoCmd="skopeo --insecure-policy --tmpdir=$TMPDIR"
 
 usage(){
     echo  >&2 "syntax: nix-prefetch-docker [options] [IMAGE_NAME [IMAGE_TAG|IMAGE_DIGEST]]
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ get_image_digest(){
         imageTag="latest"
     fi
 
-    skopeo inspect "docker://$imageName:$imageTag" | jq '.Digest' -r
+    "$skopeoCmd" inspect "docker://$imageName:$imageTag" | jq '.Digest' -r
 }
 
 get_name() {
@@ -127,9 +128,9 @@ trap "rm -rf \"$tmpPath\"" EXIT
 tmpFile="$tmpPath/$(get_name $finalImageName $finalImageTag)"
 
 if test -z "$QUIET"; then
-    skopeo --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceUrl" "docker-archive://$tmpFile:$finalImageName:$finalImageTag"
+    "$skopeoCmd" --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceUrl" "docker-archive://$tmpFile:$finalImageName:$finalImageTag"
 else
-    skopeo --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceUrl" "docker-archive://$tmpFile:$finalImageName:$finalImageTag" > /dev/null
+    "$skopeoCmd" --override-os ${os} --override-arch ${arch} copy "$sourceUrl" "docker-archive://$tmpFile:$finalImageName:$finalImageTag" > /dev/null
 fi
 
 # Compute the hash.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
index 5532c3088e0..45b6867197e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/skopeo/default.nix
@@ -10,46 +10,36 @@
 , installShellFiles
 , makeWrapper
 , fuse-overlayfs
+, nixosTests
 }:
 
-let
-  version = "0.2.0";
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "skopeo";
+  version = "1.0.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     rev = "v${version}";
     owner = "containers";
     repo = "skopeo";
-    sha256 = "09zqzrw6f1s6kaknnj3hra3xz4nq6y86vmw5vk8p4f6g7cwakg1x";
+    sha256 = "1zg0agf8x7fa8zdzfzgncm64j363lmxrqjhdzsx6mlig87k17p05";
   };
 
-  defaultPolicyFile = runCommand "skopeo-default-policy.json" {} "cp ${src}/default-policy.json $out";
-
-  vendorPath = "github.com/containers/skopeo/vendor/github.com/containers/image/v5";
-
-in
-buildGoModule {
-  pname = "skopeo";
-  inherit version;
-  inherit src;
-
   outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
 
   vendorSha256 = null;
 
-  excludedPackages = [ "integration" ];
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config go-md2man installShellFiles makeWrapper ];
 
   buildInputs = [ gpgme ]
   ++ stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [ lvm2 btrfs-progs ];
 
-  buildFlagsArray = ''
-    -ldflags=
-    -X ${vendorPath}/signature.systemDefaultPolicyPath=${defaultPolicyFile}
-    -X ${vendorPath}/internal/tmpdir.unixTempDirForBigFiles=/tmp
+  buildPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs .
+    make binary-local
   '';
 
-  postBuild = ''
+  installPhase = ''
+    make install-binary PREFIX=$out
     make install-docs MANINSTALLDIR="$man/share/man"
     installShellCompletion --bash completions/bash/skopeo
   '';
@@ -59,6 +49,8 @@ buildGoModule {
       --prefix PATH : ${stdenv.lib.makeBinPath [ fuse-overlayfs ]}
   '';
 
+  passthru.tests.docker-tools = nixosTests.docker-tools;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A command line utility for various operations on container images and image repositories";
     homepage = "https://github.com/containers/skopeo";