diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.22.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.22.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..399b3296d382
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.22.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+args:
+import ./common.nix "1chz63v9jr009z9jhs07klybmhyf58i8vxipigf5gkdabjiclcyr" args
diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.23.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.23.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38617dfe8e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/0.23.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+args:
+import ./common.nix "080ny2vy00202hxcm7xm72j1zmyfs15dbsnqipwni6b2dg2am3q3" args
diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/common.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/common.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c2ff363c6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/common.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+hash: args: with args;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "shared-mime-info-" + version;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = hash;
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gettext libxml2 glib];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b82782d31d9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/data/misc/shared-mime-info/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, perlXMLParser, pkgconfig, gettext, libxml2, glib}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "shared-mime-info-0.22";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-	url = http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-0.22.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1chz63v9jr009z9jhs07klybmhyf58i8vxipigf5gkdabjiclcyr";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gettext libxml2 glib];
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3b76d1eabd58..dc39f053da10 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3857,7 +3857,7 @@ rec {
      inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  shared_mime_info = import ../data/misc/shared-mime-info {
+  shared_mime_info = selectVersion ../data/misc/shared-mime-info "0.23" {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl perlXMLParser pkgconfig gettext libxml2;
     inherit (gtkLibs) glib;
   };