diff --git a/manifest.dhall b/manifest.dhall
index 4279f885303f9ad752706996a98973736d238e04..31ef7a8d918dd661db8a9825e664da900cf6ce81 100644
--- a/manifest.dhall
+++ b/manifest.dhall
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ in  [ callHackage "Cabal" "3.8.1.0"
     , callHackage "hlint" "3.5"
     , callHackage "hopenssl" "2.2.4"
     , callHackage "hosc" "0.19.1"
+    , callHackage "hostname" "1.0"
     , callHackage "hourglass" "0.2.12"
     , callHackage "hpack-dhall" "0.5.7"
     , callHackage "hpack" "0.35.0"
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index feb2f32761b76f0bfd61dc6ad2d63b608759aae4..0c0ebf06958e726a34ba88691520369ba68a67ba 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -581,6 +581,8 @@ self: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
   hosc = self.callPackage (./pkgs/hosc.nix) { };
 
+  hostname = self.callPackage (./pkgs/hostname.nix) { };
+
   hourglass = self.callPackage (./pkgs/hourglass.nix) { };
 
   hpack = self.callPackage (./pkgs/hpack.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/hostname.nix b/pkgs/hostname.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..412a2f5b16910c6f6d7b479da9629a5504829626
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/hostname.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ mkDerivation, base, lib }:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "hostname";
+  version = "1.0";
+  sha256 = "9b43dab1b6da521f35685b20555da00738c8e136eb972458c786242406a9cf5c";
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = false;
+  enableSeparateDataOutput = false;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base ];
+  enableLibraryProfiling = false;
+  enableExecutableProfiling = false;
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  doBenchmark = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  description = "A very simple package providing a cross-platform means of determining the hostname";
+  license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  broken = false;
+}