# idea: provide nix environment for your developement actions # experimental /* # example: # add postgresql to environment and create ctags (tagfiles can be extracted from TAG_FILES) # add this to your ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix { packageOverrides = pkgs : with pkgs; with sourceAndTags; let simple = { name, buildInputs ? [], cTags ? [], extraCmds ? ""}: pkgs.myEnvFun { inherit name; buildInputs = buildInputs ++ map (x : sourceWithTagsDerivation ( (addCTaggingInfo x ).passthru.sourceWithTags ) ) cTags; extraCmds = '' ${extraCmds} HOME=${builtins.getEnv "HOME"} . ~/.bashrc ''; }; in rec { nixEnv = simple { name = "nix"; buildInputs = [ libtool stdenv perl curl bzip2 openssl aterm242fixes db45 autoconf automake zlib ]; cTags = [ aterm242fixes]; }; [...] }; } Put this into your .bashrc loadEnv(){ . "${HOME}/.nix-profile/dev-envs/${1}" } then nix-env -iA ...nixEnv and $ loadEnv postgresql */ { mkDerivation, substituteAll, pkgs } : { stdenv ? pkgs.stdenv, name, buildInputs ? [], cTags ? [], extraCmds ? ""} : mkDerivation { buildInputs = [ ] ++ buildInputs ; name = "env-${name}"; phases = "buildPhase"; setupNew = substituteAll { src = ../../stdenv/generic/setup.sh; preHook=""; postHook=""; initialPath= (import ../../stdenv/common-path.nix) { inherit pkgs; }; gcc = stdenv.gcc; }; buildPhase = '' set -x mkdir -p "$out/dev-envs" "$out/nix-support" s="$out/nix-support/setup-new-modified" cp "$setupNew" "$s" # shut some warning up.., do not use set -e sed -e 's@set -e@@' \ -e 's@assertEnvExists\s\+NIX_STORE@:@' \ -e 's@trap.*@@' \ -i "$s" cat >> "$out/dev-envs/''${name/env-/}" << EOF buildInputs="$buildNativeInputs" # the setup-new script wants to write some data to a temp file.. so just let it do that and tidy up afterwards tmp="\$("${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mktemp" -d)" NIX_BUILD_TOP="\$tmp" phases= # only do all the setup stuff in nix-support/* set +e if [[ -z "\$ZSH_VERSION" ]]; then source "$s" else setopt interactivecomments # fix bash indirection # let's hope the bash arrays aren't used # substitute is using bash array, so skip it echo ' setopt NO_BAD_PATTERN setopt NO_BANG_HIST setopt NO_BG_NICE setopt NO_EQUALS setopt NO_FUNCTION_ARGZERO setopt GLOB_SUBST setopt NO_HUP setopt INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS setopt KSH_ARRAYS setopt NO_MULTIOS setopt NO_NOMATCH setopt RM_STAR_SILENT setopt POSIX_BUILTINS setopt SH_FILE_EXPANSION setopt SH_GLOB setopt SH_OPTION_LETTERS setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT ' >> "\$tmp/script" sed -e 's/\''${!\([^}]*\)}/\''${(P)\1}/g' \ -e 's/[[]\*\]//' \ -e 's/substitute() {/ substitute() { return; /' \ -e 's@PATH=\$@PATH=${pkgs.coreutils}/bin@' \ "$s" >> "\$tmp/script" echo "\$tmp/script"; source "\$tmp/script"; fi rm -fr "\$tmp" ${extraCmds} export PATH echo $name loaded EOF ''; }