diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/1.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..174296375e08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ libmodulemd, fetchurl }:
+
+libmodulemd.overrideAttrs(old: rec {
+  name = "libmodulemd-${version}";
+  version = "1.8.15";
+
+  # Removes py output since there's no overrides here
+  outputs = [ "out" "devdoc" ];
+
+  patches = [
+    # Checks for glib docs in glib's prefix
+    # but they're installed to another
+    ./dont-check-docs.patch
+  ];
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd/releases/download/${name}/modulemd-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0gz8p3qzji3cx0r57sy3gn4dhigg4k7pcxj3lmjcjn13vxh5rm7z";
+  };
+
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/dont-check-docs.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/dont-check-docs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38ad5683692b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmodulemd/dont-check-docs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 155c9e7..9125372 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ sh = find_program('sh')
+ sed = find_program('sed')
+ test = find_program('test')
+ 
+-ret = run_command ([test, '-e', join_paths(glib_docpath, 'glib/index.html')])
+-if ret.returncode() != 0
+-  error('Missing documentation for GLib.')
+-endif
+-
+-ret = run_command ([test, '-e', join_paths(glib_docpath, 'gobject/index.html')])
+-if ret.returncode() != 0
+-  error('Missing documentation for GObject.')
+-endif
++# ret = run_command ([test, '-e', join_paths(glib_docpath, 'glib/index.html')])
++# if ret.returncode() != 0
++#   error('Missing documentation for GLib.')
++# endif
++
++# ret = run_command ([test, '-e', join_paths(glib_docpath, 'gobject/index.html')])
++# if ret.returncode() != 0
++#   error('Missing documentation for GObject.')
++# endif
+ 
+ python_name = get_option('python_name')
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7c0bd13a2e83..512b20905ddd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12347,6 +12347,7 @@ in
   libvdpau = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvdpau { };
 
   libmodulemd = callPackage ../development/libraries/libmodulemd { };
+  libmodulemd_1 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libmodulemd/1.nix { };
 
   libvdpau-va-gl = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl { };