diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 328df794a8e..3f28ebebd22 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1460,4 +1460,11 @@ self: super: {
   # details.
   cryptonite = dontCheck super.cryptonite;
 
+  # The test suite depends on an impure cabal-install installation
+  # in $HOME, which we don't have in our build sandbox.
+  cabal-install-parsers = dontCheck super.cabal-install-parsers;
+
+  # haskell-ci-0.8 needs cabal-install-parsers ==0.1, but we have 0.2.
+  haskell-ci = doJailbreak super.haskell-ci;
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super