diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix b/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix
index f65829e29cab..d0728c5d1b2c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 { nixpkgs
 , officialRelease
+, supportedSystems
 , pkgs ? import nixpkgs.outPath {}
 , nix ? pkgs.nix
 , lib-tests ? import ../../lib/tests/release.nix { inherit pkgs; }
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ releaseTools.sourceTarball {
     fi
 
     # Check that all-packages.nix evaluates on a number of platforms without any warnings.
-    for platform in i686-linux x86_64-linux x86_64-darwin; do
+    for platform in ${pkgs.lib.concatStringsSep " " supportedSystems}; do
         header "checking Nixpkgs on $platform"
 
         nix-env -f . \
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
index 7f86b30aaf00..47c47e04e1cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-small.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ with import ./release-lib.nix { inherit supportedSystems nixpkgsArgs; };
 {
 
   tarball = import ./make-tarball.nix {
-    inherit nixpkgs;
+    inherit nixpkgs supportedSystems;
     officialRelease = false;
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
index 0b18dd1ecf26..e62c3ecc19b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ let
   supportDarwin = builtins.elem "x86_64-darwin" systemsWithAnySupport;
 
   jobs =
-    { tarball = import ./make-tarball.nix { inherit pkgs nixpkgs officialRelease; };
+    { tarball = import ./make-tarball.nix { inherit pkgs nixpkgs officialRelease supportedSystems; };
 
       metrics = import ./metrics.nix { inherit pkgs nixpkgs; };