diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-lib.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-lib.nix
index a6e574a7d11..59d571f0bd1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-lib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-lib.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 { supportedSystems
 , packageSet ? (import ../..)
 , scrubJobs ? true
+, # Attributes passed to nixpkgs. Don't build packages marked as unfree.
+  nixpkgsArgs ? { config = { allowUnfree = false; inHydra = true; }; }
 }:
 
 with import ../../lib;
 
 rec {
 
-  # Ensure that we don't build packages marked as unfree.
-  allPackages = args: packageSet (args // {
-    config.allowUnfree = false;
-    config.inHydra = true;
-  });
+  allPackages = args: packageSet (args // nixpkgsArgs);
 
   pkgs = pkgsFor "x86_64-linux";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
index 7c6954564d0..66ff9a9e6b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@
   supportedSystems ? [ "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" ]
 , # Strip most of attributes when evaluating to spare memory usage
   scrubJobs ? true
+, # Attributes passed to nixpkgs. Don't build packages marked as unfree.
+  nixpkgsArgs ? { config = { allowUnfree = false; inHydra = true; }; }
 }:
 
-with import ./release-lib.nix { inherit supportedSystems scrubJobs; };
+with import ./release-lib.nix { inherit supportedSystems scrubJobs nixpkgsArgs; };
 
 let