diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/test-eval-release.sh b/maintainers/scripts/test-eval-release.sh
index 4ab3f9775a0f..9ef531319e4d 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/test-eval-release.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/test-eval-release.sh
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 if [[ -z "$VERBOSE" ]]; then
   echo "You may set VERBOSE=1 to see debug output or to any other non-empty string to make this script completely silent"
 fi
+unset HOME NIXPKGS_CONFIG # Force empty config
 nix-instantiate --strict --eval-only --xml --show-trace "$(dirname "$0")"/eval-release.nix 2>&1 > /dev/null