diff --git a/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/context.nix b/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/context.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11b4d15c097
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/context.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+args: with args;
+rec {
+  name = "context-2008.01.28";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/context/context_2008.01.28.orig.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0infkn73v3kwqgg6b7rqnr28i5z5dbdfapy6ppzlcnr19yj4nh9y";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [texLive];
+  phaseNames = ["doCopy"];
+  doCopy = FullDepEntry (''
+    ensureDir $out/share/texmf
+    cp -r * $out/share/texmf
+  '') ["minInit" "doUnpack" "defEnsureDir" "addInputs"];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "ConTEXt TeX wrapper";
+  };
+
+}
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/default.nix
index 1714effb72c..f9528197c80 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/tex/texlive/default.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ rec {
     ln -s $out/share/texmf $out/share/texmf-config
     
     sed -e 's/.*pyhyph.*/=&/' -i $out/share/texmf-config/tex/generic/config/language.dat
+    sed -e 's@^#!env ruby@#! ${ruby}/bin/ruby@' -i $out/libexec/*/*
+    sed -e 's@^#!env perl@#! ${perl}/bin/perl@' -i $out/libexec/*/*
 
     PATH=$PATH:$out/bin mktexlsr $out/share/texmf*
 
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@ rec {
     zlib bzip2 ncurses libpng flex bison libX11 libICE
     xproto freetype t1lib gd libXaw icu ghostscript ed 
     libXt libXpm libXmu libXext xextproto perl libSM 
+    ruby
   ];
 
   configureFlags = [ "--with-x11" "--with-system-zlib"