diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update-shell.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update-shell.nix
index e1b727c49e04..52a9e741af21 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update-shell.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update-shell.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-{ pkgs ? import ../../.. { } }:
+{ pkgs ? import ../../../../.. { } }:
 
+# Ideally, pkgs points to default.nix file of Nixpkgs official tree
 with pkgs;
 let
   pyEnv = python3.withPackages (ps: [ ps.GitPython ]);
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
index 7a631c1c7dc5..ad1c38cb375f 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/update.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 # refer to:
 #
 # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md#updating-plugins-in-nixpkgs-updating-plugins-in-nixpkgs
+#
+# (or the equivalent file /doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md from Nixpkgs master tree).
+#
 
 import inspect
 import os
@@ -27,7 +30,8 @@ log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
 
 # Import plugin update library from maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate.py
 ROOT = Path(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe()))))
-sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(ROOT.parent.parent.parent, "maintainers", "scripts"))
+# Ideally, ROOT.(parent^5) points to root of Nixpkgs official tree
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(ROOT.parent.parent.parent.parent.parent, "maintainers", "scripts"))
 import pluginupdate
 
 GET_PLUGINS = f"""(with import <localpkgs> {{}};