diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/haskell.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/haskell.section.md
index cba4d0561b074..3abe5ac03dbfd 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/haskell.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/haskell.section.md
@@ -1060,8 +1060,11 @@ by hand, but rather autogenerated by [`hackage2nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/ca
 which by default uses the [`configuration-hackage2nix.yaml`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml)
 file to generate all the derivations.
 
-To modify the contents `configuration-hackage2nix.yaml`, follow the
-instructions on [`hackage2nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/tree/master/hackage2nix).
+To regenerate [`hackage-packages.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix)
+after making changes to the [`configuration-hackage2nix.yaml`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml)
+file or updating the snapshot of the Hackage database with the [`update-hackage.sh`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/scripts/update-hackage.sh)
+maintainer script, run the [`regenerate-hackage-packages.sh`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh)
+maintainer script.
 
 ## Other resources
 
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh b/maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..467c815121e44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils haskellPackages.cabal2nix-latest -I nixpkgs=.
+
+# This script is used to regenerate nixpkgs' Haskell package set, using a tool
+# called hackage2nix. hackage2nix looks at
+# pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml and generates
+# a Nix expression for package version specified there, using the Cabal files
+# from the Hackage database (available under all-cabal-hashes) and its
+# companion tool cabal2nix.
+#
+# Related scripts are update-hackage.sh, for updating the snapshot of the
+# Hackage database used by hackage2nix, and update-cabal2nix-latest.sh,
+# for updating the version of hackage2nix used to perform this task.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# fetch and unpack hackage hashes
+unpacked_hackage="$(nix-build . -A all-cabal-hashes --no-out-link)"
+# run hackage2nix, the one from the argument if given
+eval ${1:-hackage2nix} --hackage "$unpacked_hackage" --preferred-versions <(for n in "$unpacked_hackage"/*/preferred-versions; do cat "$n"; echo; done) --nixpkgs "$PWD" --config pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh b/maintainers/scripts/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..2adee8dc6e262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-cabal2nix-latest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p coreutils curl jq gnused cabal2nix -I nixpkgs=.
+
+# Updates cabal2nix-latest to the latest master of the nixos/cabal2nix repository.
+# See regenerate-hackage-packages.sh for details on the purpose of this script.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# fetch current master HEAD from Github
+head_info="$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/cabal2nix/branches/master)"
+# extract commit hash
+commit="$(jq -r .commit.sha <<< "$head_info")"
+# extract commit timestamp and convert to date
+date="$(date "--date=$(jq -r .commit.commit.committer.date <<< "$head_info")" +%F)"
+# generate nix expression from cabal file, replacing the version with the commit date
+echo '# This file defines cabal2nix-latest, used by maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.' > pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
+cabal2nix "https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/archive/$commit.tar.gz" | sed -e 's/version = ".*"/version = "'"$date"'"/' >> pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-hackage.sh b/maintainers/scripts/update-hackage.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..cb5c352eade53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-hackage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -i bash -p nix curl jq nix-prefetch-github -I nixpkgs=.
+
+# See regenerate-hackage-packages.sh for details on the purpose of this script.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+current_commit="$(nix-instantiate --eval . -A all-cabal-hashes.commit)"
+head_commit="$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-hashes/branches/hackage | jq -r .commit.sha)"
+if [ "$current_commit" != "$head_commit" ]; then
+    nix-prefetch-github commercialhaskell all-cabal-hashes --rev "$head_commit" > pkgs/data/misc/hackage/pin.json
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/default.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/default.nix
index 73429770b295a..45132deb49010 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-{ fetchurl }:
-
-fetchurl {
-  url = "https://github.com/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-hashes/archive/e8df5568f80e6230e29c2381e842db35fe11cd71.tar.gz";
-  sha256 = "1fz4iax88pmlqpb4zp3l6mb6bmkzzha0q6mm3xasabh5yl83dbhy";
-}
+# Hackage database snapshot, used by maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh
+{ fetchFromGitHub }:
+let
+  pin = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ./pin.json);
+in
+  fetchFromGitHub (pin // { passthru.commit = pin.rev; })
diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/pin.json b/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/pin.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fd72621995bea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/hackage/pin.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "owner": "commercialhaskell",
+    "repo": "all-cabal-hashes",
+    "rev": "5f32599b70a90c90b5660de1db3195e16001cec9",
+    "sha256": "0xa7yfz4jqffdn9rrrpbcm3nlbw2p07gqdglz4yyys8q5nfvld69"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..568899090a91a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/cabal2nix-latest.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# This file defines cabal2nix-latest, used by maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh.
+{ mkDerivation, aeson, ansi-wl-pprint, base, bytestring, Cabal
+, containers, deepseq, directory, distribution-nixpkgs, fetchzip
+, filepath, hackage-db, hopenssl, hpack, language-nix, lens
+, monad-par, monad-par-extras, mtl, optparse-applicative, pretty
+, process, split, stdenv, tasty, tasty-golden, text, time
+, transformers, yaml
+}:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "cabal2nix";
+  version = "2020-05-05";
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix/archive/b7c82dbe6d2bb571c92771385bdee6451b087b0f.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0gxzb368w8w7kg9y0imzr0bzr8qnvhblm9sz326p8yff26xbk9h5";
+  };
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = true;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [
+    aeson ansi-wl-pprint base bytestring Cabal containers deepseq
+    directory distribution-nixpkgs filepath hackage-db hopenssl hpack
+    language-nix lens optparse-applicative pretty process split text
+    time transformers yaml
+  ];
+  executableHaskellDepends = [
+    aeson base bytestring Cabal containers directory
+    distribution-nixpkgs filepath hopenssl language-nix lens monad-par
+    monad-par-extras mtl optparse-applicative pretty
+  ];
+  testHaskellDepends = [
+    base Cabal containers directory filepath language-nix lens pretty
+    process tasty tasty-golden
+  ];
+  preCheck = ''
+    export PATH="$PWD/dist/build/cabal2nix:$PATH"
+    export HOME="$TMPDIR/home"
+  '';
+  homepage = "https://github.com/nixos/cabal2nix#readme";
+  description = "Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions";
+  license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
index 9a2ff6f4a2adf..aaa406ea14303 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/non-hackage-packages.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 # files.
 self: super: {
 
+  # Used by maintainers/scripts/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh, and generated
+  # from the latest master instead of the current version on Hackage.
+  cabal2nix-latest = self.callPackage ./cabal2nix-latest.nix { };
+
   multi-ghc-travis = throw ("haskellPackages.multi-ghc-travis has been renamed"
     + " to haskell-ci, which is now on hackage");