nix-init

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 cargoHash and vendorHash
• Dependency inference for Rust, Go, and Python projects
• Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions
• License detection

Installation

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:

bash nix run github:nix-community/nix-init -- --help

or if you don't have flakes enabled:

bash nix run --extra-experimental-features "flakes nix-command" github:nix-community/nix-init -- --help

Usage

``` Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] [OUTPUT]

Arguments: [OUTPUT] The path or directory to output the generated file to

Options: -u, --url Specify the URL -n, --nixpkgs Path to nixpkgs (in nix) -C, --commit[=] Commit the changes if the output path is name-based (RFC 140) [possible values: true, false] -c, --config Specify the config file -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ```

Supported builders

• stdenv.mkDerivation
• buildRustPackage
• buildPythonApplication and buildPythonPackage
• buildGoModule

Supported fetchers

• fetchCrate
• fetchFromGitHub
• fetchFromGitLab
• fetchFromGitea
• fetchPypi
• All other fetchers supported by [nurl] are also supported, you just have to manually input the tag/revision of the package

Configuration

nix-init will try to find nix-init/config.toml under XDG configuration directories

```toml

~/.config/nix-init/config.toml

maintainers that will get added to the package meta

maintainers = ["figsoda"]

path to nixpkgs (in nix), equivalent to --nixpkgs

nixpkgs = "" # use the nixpkgs from channels (default)

nixpkgs = 'builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"' # use the nixpkgs from the flake registry

commit the changes if the output path is name-based (RFC 140)

see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name for more information

commit = true

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" ```

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md