diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 0c4a79bbbf..82eda6042a 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST +=						\
   build-aux/config.rpath				\
   bootstrap						\
   doc/build.scm						\
-  release.nix						\
   $(TESTS)
 
 if !BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
diff --git a/release.nix b/release.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 369d54ed96..0000000000
--- a/release.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-/* GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-   Copyright (C) 2012  Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-
-   This file is part of GNU Guix.
-
-   GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
-   your option) any later version.
-
-   GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
-
-/* Release file to build Guix with Nix.  Useful to bootstrap Guix on
-   Guix-enabled Hydra instances.  */
-
-let
-  nixpkgs = <nixpkgs>;
-
-  buildOutOfSourceTree = true;
-  succeedOnFailure = true;
-  keepBuildDirectory = true;
-
-  # The Guile used to bootstrap the whole thing.  It's normally
-  # downloaded by the build system, but here we download it via a
-  # fixed-output derivation and stuff it into the build tree.
-  bootstrap_guile =
-    let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in {
-      i686 = pkgs.fetchurl {
-        url = http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages/i686-linux/20121219/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz;
-        sha256 = "45d1f9bfb9e4531a8f1c5a105f7ab094cd481b8a179ccc63cbabb73ce6b8437f";
-      };
-
-      x86_64 = pkgs.fetchurl {
-        url = http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages/x86_64-linux/20121219/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz;
-        sha256 = "953fbcc8db6e310626be79b67319cf4141dc23b296447952a99d95425b3a4dc1";
-      };
-    };
-
-  jobs = {
-    tarball =
-      let pkgs = import nixpkgs {}; in
-      pkgs.releaseTools.sourceTarball {
-        name = "guix-tarball";
-        src = <guix>;
-        buildInputs = with pkgs; [ guile sqlite bzip2 git libgcrypt ];
-        buildNativeInputs = with pkgs; [ texinfo gettext cvs pkgconfig ];
-        preAutoconf = ''git config submodule.nix.url "${<nix>}"'';
-        configureFlags =
-          [ "--with-libgcrypt-prefix=${pkgs.libgcrypt}"
-            "--localstatedir=/nix/var"
-          ];
-      };
-
-    build =
-      { system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
-
-      let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
-      pkgs.releaseTools.nixBuild {
-        name = "guix";
-        buildInputs = with pkgs; [ guile sqlite bzip2 libgcrypt ];
-        buildNativeInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
-        src = jobs.tarball;
-        configureFlags =
-          [ "--with-libgcrypt-prefix=${pkgs.libgcrypt}"
-            "--localstatedir=/nix/var"
-          ];
-
-        preBuild =
-          # Use our pre-downloaded bootstrap tarballs instead of letting
-          # the build system download it over and over again.
-          '' mkdir -p distro/packages/bootstrap/{i686,x86_64}-linux
-             cp -v "${bootstrap_guile.i686}" \
-               distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz
-             cp -v "${bootstrap_guile.x86_64}" \
-               distro/packages/bootstrap/x86_64-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz
-          '';
-
-        inherit succeedOnFailure keepBuildDirectory
-          buildOutOfSourceTree;
-      };
-
-
-    build_disable_daemon =
-      { system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
-
-      let
-        pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
-        build = jobs.build { inherit system; };
-      in
-        pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation build ({ configureFlags, ... }: {
-          configureFlags = configureFlags ++ [ "--disable-daemon" ];
-          buildInputs = with pkgs; [ guile nixUnstable pkgconfig ];
-
-          # Since we need to talk to a running daemon, we need to escape
-          # the chroot.
-          preConfigure = "export NIX_REMOTE=daemon";
-          __noChroot = true;
-        });
-
-    # Jobs to test the distro.
-    distro = {
-      hello =
-        { system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
-
-        let
-          pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
-          guix = jobs.build { inherit system; };
-        in
-          # XXX: We have no way to tell the Nix code to swallow the .drv
-          # produced by `guix-build', so we have a pointless indirection
-          # here.  This could be worked around by generating Nix code
-          # from the .drv, and importing that.
-          pkgs.releaseTools.nixBuild {
-            src = null;
-            name = "guix-hello";
-            phases = "buildPhase";
-            buildPhase = "${guix}/bin/guix-build --no-substitutes hello | tee $out";
-            __noChroot = true;
-          };
-    };
-  };
-in
-  jobs