diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/UPGRADING.md b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/UPGRADING.md
index 4cfe80b79a71..86e650afd46f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/UPGRADING.md
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/UPGRADING.md
@@ -35,13 +35,18 @@ See https://tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html for instructions.
 
 
 ```bash
-curl -L http://mirror.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz \
+curl -L https://texlive.info/tlnet-archive/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz \
          | xzcat | sed -rn -f ./tl2nix.sed | uniq > ./pkgs.nix
 ```
 
-This will download a current snapshot of the CTAN package database `texlive.tlpdb.xz`
+This will download the daily snapshot of the CTAN package database `texlive.tlpdb.xz`
 and regenerate all of the sha512 hashes for the current upstream distribution in `pkgs.nix`.
 
+Use the url
+
+https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/$YEAR/tlnet-final/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz
+
+for the final TeX Live release.
 
 ### Build packages locally and generate fix hashes