diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 6d2b3264b6f..ac220fe986c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -219,6 +219,15 @@ self: super: {
   # ghc 8.10.
   hnix = dontCheck super.hnix;
 
+  #  2021-01-07: NOTE: hnix-store-core pinned at ==0.2 in Stackage Nightly.
+  # https://github.com/haskell-nix/hnix-store/issues/104
+  # Until unpin, which may hold off in time due to Stackage maintenence bottleneck
+  # the 0_4_0_0 is used
+  hnix-store-remote = (super.hnix-store-remote.override {
+    hnix-store-core = self.hnix-store-core_0_4_0_0; # at least 1.7
+  });
+
+
   # Fails for non-obvious reasons while attempting to use doctest.
   search = dontCheck super.search;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index 90a374363e6..96918a15c57 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -6445,7 +6445,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - hmt-diagrams
   - hmumps
   - hnetcdf
-  - hnix-store-remote
   - HNM
   - hnormalise
   - ho-rewriting