diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
index cc54e1f1fe..10c6fb99b2 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/binutils/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html"
 #PKG_URL="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 #PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.pgpi.com/linux/kernel/pub/linux/devel/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
-PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 #PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache bison flex linux-headers gmp-host mpfr cloog ppl"