diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/nix-call-package b/maintainers/scripts/nix-call-package
index 76f09e9ddeb8..be478fca2b75 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/nix-call-package
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/nix-call-package
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
-echo "let pkgs = import /etc/nixos/nixpkgs$2 {}; x = pkgs.callPackage $1 { $3 }; in ${4:-x}" |
+echo "let pkgs = import <nixpkgs$2> {}; x = pkgs.callPackage $1 { $3 }; in ${4:-x}" |
 nix-instantiate --show-trace - |
 xargs nix-store -r -K