Tony Cheneau's custom packages

Disclamer: it probably is not the Nix/NixOS way

This repository is a "nix overlay" that you might want to use to add extra derivations/packages to your system. It will enable you to quickly add more derivations to your system.

Heavily inspired from the following tutorials/blogs:

• https://nix-tutorial.gitlabpages.inria.fr/nix-tutorial/experiment-packaging.html
• https://github.com/mrVanDalo/nix-overlay

Using nix-shell from a user profile

All that is needed it to declare the overlay

# run from the root of this repository
mkdir -p ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays
ln -s $PWD ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/mynixpkgs

Then you can run nix-shell with the overlay packages:

nix-shell -p podman_compose

Manual build

Go to the package directory and run the command that is at the default.nix file in the root of this repository. For example, in order to build podman_compose:

cd pkgs/podman_compose
nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {} ; python3Packages.callPackage ./default.nix {}'

Adding this overlay to your NixOS system

In the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

# ellipsis are just text I omitted

...

let
  nixpkgs-tcheneau = import (fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/tcheneau/mynixpkgs"; ref = "master"; });
in
{
  nixpkgs.overlays = [
    nixpkgs-tcheneau
  ];

  environment.systemPackages = [

    ...

    pkgs.podman_compose

    ...
  ];

  ...
}

Side note

I am amazed at how HARD it was to actually get down to these few instructions.