diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/bootstrap-sources.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/bootstrap-sources.nix
index f06db98a8efee..45f556e3c3557 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/bootstrap-sources.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/bootstrap-sources.nix
@@ -18,17 +18,9 @@ rec {
   # Packaged resources required for the first bootstrapping stage.
   # Contains source code and 256-byte hex0 binary seed.
   #
-  # We don't have access to utilities such as fetchgit and fetchzip since this
-  # is this is part of the bootstrap process and would introduce a circular
-  # dependency. The only tool we have to fetch source trees is `import <nix/fetchurl.nix>`
-  # with the unpack option, taking a NAR file as input. This requires source
-  # tarballs to be repackaged.
-  #
-  # To build see `make-bootstrap-sources.nix`
-  src = import <nix/fetchurl.nix> {
-    inherit name;
-    url = "https://github.com/emilytrau/bootstrap-tools-nar-mirror/releases/download/2023-05-02/${name}.nar.xz";
-    hash = "sha256-ZRG0k49MxL1UTZhuMTvPoEprdSpJRNVy8QhLE6k+etg=";
-    unpack = true;
+  src = builtins.fetchGit {
+    inherit name rev;
+    url = "https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix";
+    shallow = true;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/make-bootstrap-sources.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/make-bootstrap-sources.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fec03f370bc38..0000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/make-bootstrap-sources.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-# Packaged resources required for the first bootstrapping stage.
-# Contains source code and 256-byte hex0 binary seed.
-#
-# We don't have access to utilities such as fetchgit and fetchzip since this
-# is this is part of the bootstrap process and would introduce a circular
-# dependency. The only tool we have to fetch source trees is `import <nix/fetchurl.nix>`
-# with the unpack option, taking a NAR file as input. This requires source
-# tarballs to be repackaged.
-#
-# To build:
-#
-#   nix-build pkgs/os-specific/linux/minimal-bootstrap/stage0-posix/make-bootstrap-sources.nix
-#   => ./result/stage0-posix-$version-$rev-source.nar.xz
-#
-
-{ pkgs ? import ../../../../.. {} }:
-let
-  inherit (pkgs) callPackage runCommand fetchFromGitHub nix xz;
-
-  inherit (import ./bootstrap-sources.nix) name rev;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "oriansj";
-    repo = "stage0-posix";
-    inherit rev;
-    sha256 = "sha256-ZRG0k49MxL1UTZhuMTvPoEprdSpJRNVy8QhLE6k+etg=";
-    fetchSubmodules = true;
-    postFetch = ''
-      # Remove vendored/duplicate M2libc's
-      echo "Removing duplicate M2libc"
-      rm -rf \
-        $out/M2-Mesoplanet/M2libc \
-        $out/M2-Planet/M2libc \
-        $out/mescc-tools/M2libc \
-        $out/mescc-tools-extra/M2libc
-    '';
-  };
-in
-runCommand name {
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ nix xz ];
-
-  passthru = { inherit src; };
-} ''
-  mkdir $out
-  nix-store --dump ${src} | xz -c > "$out/${name}.nar.xz"
-''