diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/builder.sh b/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cf93bef868f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-preBuild=preBuild
-preBuild() {
-  bunzip2 < $pciids > pci.ids
-}
-
-makeFlags="PREFIX=$out $makeFlags"
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/default.nix
index 92ebcbdad06a..d9ef0474c498 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/pciutils/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, zlib}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "pciutils-3.0.0";
-  
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  name = "pciutils-3.1.2";
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://kernel/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils-3.0.0.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1q9j7w95ysy6c02j7p3z58y23n5v2cdjwy6hz8s9xzvnlr0ynpnh";
+    url = mirror://kernel/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils-3.1.2.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "15wksvqcgdj0hvsp5irc1igiqid69rrzpc33qj9nlyssvyw40vpn";
   };
   
   buildInputs = [zlib];
 
   pciids = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/pci.ids.20080830.bz2;
-    sha256 = "0nfjj9lsifmm6js9w0isrscirr1a7dj9ynppbc0g5i19rzrmwafy";
+    # Obtained from http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.bz2.
+    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/pci.ids.20090220.bz2;
+    sha256 = "1zdp85vcxhgrw1rwcsa35pk4j1b3scb7i61gzghbcn2mrm9cwwd9";
   };
 
   # Override broken auto-detect logic.
-  makeFlags = "ZLIB=yes DNS=yes";
+  makeFlags = "ZLIB=yes DNS=yes SHARED=yes PREFIX=\${out}";
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    bunzip2 < $pciids > pci.ids
+  '';
 
   installTargets = "install install-lib";