Generate Nix packages from URLs
Note: It is likely that the generated package will not work without some tweaks, also remember to double check the license and description even if it does work
- Hash prefetching powered by nurl with support for
cargoHashandvendorHash - Dependency inference for Rust, Go, and Python projects
- Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions
- License detection
The latest release of nix-init is packaged in nixpkgs and kept up to date on the unstable branches
If you want to use a more recent snapshot of nix-init, it is also available as a flake.
The following command is equivalent to running nix-init --help:
nix run github:nix-community/nix-init -- --helpor if you don't have flakes enabled:
nix run --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" github:nix-community/nix-init -- --helpUsage: nix-init [OPTIONS] [OUTPUT]
Arguments:
[OUTPUT] The path or directory to output the generated file to
Options:
-u, --url <URL> Specify the URL
-n, --nixpkgs <NIXPKGS> Path to nixpkgs (in nix)
-c, --config <CONFIG> Specify the config file
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
stdenv.mkDerivationbuildRustPackagebuildPythonApplicationandbuildPythonPackagebuildGoModule
fetchCratefetchFromGitHubfetchFromGitLabfetchFromGiteafetchPypi- All other fetchers supported by nurl are also supported, you just have to manually input the tag/revision of the package
nix-init will try to find nix-init/config.toml under XDG configuration directories
# ~/.config/nix-init/config.toml
# maintainers that will get added to the package meta
maintainers = ["figsoda"]
# path to nixpkgs, equivalent to `--nixpkgs`
nixpkgs = "<nixpkgs>"
# access tokens to access private repositories and avoid rate limits
[access-tokens]
"github.com" = "ghp_blahblahblah..."
"gitlab.com".command = ["secret-tool", "or", "whatever", "you", "use"]
"gitlab.gnome.org".file = "/path/to/api/token"See CHANGELOG.md