diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/minio-client/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/minio-client/default.nix
index 303204c9c21e..7498f116e77a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/minio-client/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/minio-client/default.nix
@@ -1,39 +1,28 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, go }:
+{ stdenv, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "minio-client-${shortVersion}";
+buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "minio-client-${version}";
 
-  shortVersion = "20170206";
-  longVersion = "2017-02-06T20-16-19Z";
+  version = "2018-02-09T23-07-36Z";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/minio/mc/archive/RELEASE.${lib.replaceStrings [":"] ["-"] longVersion}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0k66kr7x669jvydcxp3rpvg8p9knhmcihpnjiqynhqgrdy16mr1f";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "minio";
+    repo = "mc";
+    rev = "RELEASE.${version}";
+    sha256 = "1mzjqcvl8740jkkrsyycwqminnd0vdl1m2mvq8hnywj8hs816bfd";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ go ];
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/minio/mc";
 
-  unpackPhase = ''
-    d=$TMPDIR/src/github.com/minio/mc
-    mkdir -p $d
-    tar xf $src -C $d --strip-component 1
-    export GOPATH=$TMPDIR
-    cd $d
-  '';
+  buildFlagsArray = [''-ldflags=
+    -X github.com/minio/mc/cmd.Version=${version}
+  ''];
 
-  buildPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    go build -o $out/bin/minio-client \
-      --ldflags "-X github.com/minio/mc/cmd.Version=${longVersion}"
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = "ln -s minio-client $out/bin/mc";
-
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://github.com/minio/mc;
     description = "A replacement for ls, cp, mkdir, diff and rsync commands for filesystems and object storage";
-    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eelco ];
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ eelco bachp ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
   };
 }