Bundling local derivations

[baduhai]

How would I go about bundling a derivation that I've written? I've tried the obvious nix bundle --bundler github:ralismark/nix-appimage -f default.nix, but that doesn't seem to work.

[ralismark]

Ah, seems like it'd be hitting an error with the main program detection. That syntax should work otherwise. For arbitrary derivations, meta.mainProgram gets used, falling back to /bin/ if that doesn't exist. The default bundler does this too, but just produces an invalid bundle instead.

Ideally there'll be a standard way of overriding the program name (e.g. for nixpkgs#mesa-demos, which has multiple binaries), but until then I can add a script that specifies the binary to run.

see:

• Standardised main program detection/way to override it NixOS/bundlers#6
• Create a script that allows specifying the binary to package #3