diff --git a/recipes/rust/rust-1.4.0.inc b/recipes/rust/rust-1.4.0.inc
index 0a56879..cb7b053 100644
--- a/recipes/rust/rust-1.4.0.inc
+++ b/recipes/rust/rust-1.4.0.inc
@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
 SRC_URI[rust.md5sum] = "53907e4b819872bd256df8edc0d9f064"
 SRC_URI[rust.sha256sum] = "1c0dfdce5c85d8098fcebb9adf1493847ab40c1dfaa8cc997af09b2ef0aa8211"
-
-## snapshot info taken from rust/src/snapshots.txt
-## TODO: find a way to add additional SRC_URIs based on the contents of an
-##       earlier SRC_URI.
-RS_DATE = "2015-08-11"
-RS_SRCHASH = "1af31d4"
-# linux-x86_64
-RS_ARCH = "linux-x86_64"
-RS_HASH = "7df8ba9dec63ec77b857066109d4b6250f3d222f"
-
-RUST_SNAPSHOT = "rust-stage0-${RS_DATE}-${RS_SRCHASH}-${RS_ARCH}-${RS_HASH}.tar.bz2"
-
-SRC_URI[rust-snapshot.md5sum] = "53b2e1f553eaeb88e8d60d5380670283"
-SRC_URI[rust-snapshot.sha256sum] = "5936f5ec4327d41f3aa9f98cbedebb6fd3d72715f8df578e0c9a669154c80bc3"
-
-
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=eb87dba71cb424233bcce88db3ae2f1a"
+
+require rust-snapshot-2015-08-11.inc