diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index ac220fe986c..56f1078297e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -217,7 +217,15 @@ self: super: {
   # building of the executable has been disabled for ghc < 8.10 in hnix.
   # Generating the completions should be activated again, once we default to
   # ghc 8.10.
-  hnix = dontCheck super.hnix;
+  hnix = dontCheck (super.hnix.override {
+
+    #  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-core = self.hnix-store-core_0_4_0_0; # at least 1.7
+
+  });
 
   #  2021-01-07: NOTE: hnix-store-core pinned at ==0.2 in Stackage Nightly.
   # https://github.com/haskell-nix/hnix-store/issues/104