diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
index e61fd05ce389..b1636855aae9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/flac/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, libogg}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "flac-1.2.1";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1pry5lgzfg57pga1zbazzdd55fkgk3v5qy4axvrbny5lrr5s8dcn";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [libogg] ;
-}
+args: with args;
+let
+	flacFun = version: hash:
+	stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+		name = "flac-${version}";
+		src = fetchurl ({
+			url = "http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/${name}.tar.gz";
+		} // hash);
+		buildInputs = [libogg];
+	};
+in
+stdenv.lib.listOfListsToAttrs [
+	[ "default" (flacFun "1.2.1" { sha256 = "1pry5lgzfg57pga1zbazzdd55fkgk3v5qy4axvrbny5lrr5s8dcn"; }) ]
+	[ "1.2.1" (flacFun "1.2.1" { sha256 = "1pry5lgzfg57pga1zbazzdd55fkgk3v5qy4axvrbny5lrr5s8dcn"; }) ]
+	[ "1.1.2" (flacFun "1.1.2" { md5 = "2bfc127cdda02834d0491ab531a20960"; }) ]
+]
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index eb505a5d979f..00df7c50d78b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4263,10 +4263,12 @@ rec {
   firefox3b1Wrapper = lowPrio (wrapFirefox firefox3b1 "");
   firefox3b1BinWrapper = lowPrio (wrapFirefox firefox3b1Bin "");
  
-  flac = import ../applications/audio/flac {
+  flacAlts = import ../applications/audio/flac {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv libogg;
   };
 
+  flac = getVersion "flac" flacAlts;
+
   flashplayer = flashplayer9;
 
   flashplayer7 = import ../applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer-7 {