diff --git a/artiq/pkgs/artiq.nix b/artiq/pkgs/artiq.nix
index b6bbad5..506da92 100644
--- a/artiq/pkgs/artiq.nix
+++ b/artiq/pkgs/artiq.nix
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "artiq-${version}";
   version = import ./artiq-version.nix;
   src = import ./artiq-src.nix { inherit fetchgit; };
-  buildInputs = [ git ];
+  preBuild = "export VERSIONEER_OVERRIDE=${version}";
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ binutils-or1k llvm-or1k llvmlite levenshtein pyqtgraph-qt5 aiohttp pygit2 pythonparser numpy dateutil quamash scipy prettytable pyserial asyncserial h5py cython regex qt5Full pyqt5 ];
   checkPhase = "python -m unittest discover -v artiq.test";
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {