diff --git a/pkgs/development/coq-modules/metacoq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/coq-modules/metacoq/default.nix
index c79261aa174f..bc87c7111352 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/coq-modules/metacoq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/coq-modules/metacoq/default.nix
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ let
   releaseRev = v: "v${v}";
 
   # list of core metacoq packages sorted by dependency order
-  packages = if lib.versionAtLeast coq.coq-version "8.17" || coq.coq-version == "dev"
-     then [ "utils" "common" "template-coq" "pcuic" "safechecker" "template-pcuic" "erasure" "quotation" "safechecker-plugin" "erasure-plugin" "all" ]
-     else [ "template-coq" "pcuic" "safechecker" "erasure" "all" ];
+  packages = [ "utils" "common" "template-coq" "pcuic" "safechecker" "template-pcuic" "erasure" "quotation" "safechecker-plugin" "erasure-plugin" "all" ];
 
   template-coq = metacoq_ "template-coq";
 
@@ -105,6 +103,14 @@ let
           {
             propagatedBuildInputs = o.propagatedBuildInputs ++ lib.optional requiresOcamlStdlibShims coq.ocamlPackages.stdlib-shims;
           });
-  in derivation;
+      # utils, common, template-pcuic, quotation, safechecker-plugin, and erasure-plugin
+      # packages didn't exist before 1.2, so bulding nothing in that case
+      patched-derivation = derivation.overrideAttrs (o:
+        lib.optionalAttrs (o.pname != null &&
+          lib.elem package [ "utils" "common" "template-pcuic" "quotation" "safechecker-plugin" "erasure-plugin" ] &&
+          o.version != null && o.version != "dev" && lib.versions.isLt "1.2" o.version)
+        { patchPhase = ""; configurePhase = ""; preBuild = ""; buildPhase = "echo doing nothing"; installPhase = "echo doing nothing"; }
+      );
+  in patched-derivation;
 in
 metacoq_ (if single then "single" else "all")
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/coq-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/coq-packages.nix
index cfc8bcd289da..a4e75a9bf95a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/coq-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/coq-packages.nix
@@ -115,10 +115,16 @@ let
       mathcomp-zify = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/mathcomp-zify {};
       MenhirLib = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/MenhirLib {};
       metacoq = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/metacoq { };
-      metacoq-template-coq = self.metacoq.template-coq;
-      metacoq-pcuic        = self.metacoq.pcuic;
-      metacoq-safechecker  = self.metacoq.safechecker;
-      metacoq-erasure      = self.metacoq.erasure;
+      metacoq-utils              = self.metacoq.utils;
+      metacoq-common             = self.metacoq.common;
+      metacoq-template-coq       = self.metacoq.template-coq;
+      metacoq-pcuic              = self.metacoq.pcuic;
+      metacoq-safechecker        = self.metacoq.safechecker;
+      metacoq-template-pcuic     = self.metacoq.template-pcuic;
+      metacoq-erasure            = self.metacoq.erasure;
+      metacoq-quotation          = self.metacoq.quotation;
+      metacoq-safechecker-plugin = self.metacoq.safechecker-plugin;
+      metacoq-erasure-plugin     = self.metacoq.erasure-plugin;
       metalib = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/metalib { };
       mtac2 = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/mtac2 {};
       multinomials = callPackage ../development/coq-modules/multinomials {};