nixpkgs/shell.nix
Robert Hensing b07c441987 shell.nix: Enable e.g. --arg nixpkgs ./.
This allows shell.nix to be run with the latest tools instead of
the pinned ones when desired, which is probably not very often,
but useful nonetheless.
2024-07-29 10:33:55 +02:00

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# A shell to get tooling for Nixpkgs development
#
# Note: We intentionally don't use Flakes here,
# because every time you change any file and do another `nix develop`,
# it would create another copy of the entire ~500MB tree in the store.
# See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 for the future
#
# Note: We use a pinned Nixpkgs so that the tools are readily available even
# when making changes that would otherwise require a new build of those tools.
# If you'd like to test out changes to the tools themselves, you can pass
#
# nix-shell --arg nixpkgs ./.
#
let
pinnedNixpkgs = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ci/pinned-nixpkgs.json);
in
{
system ? builtins.currentSystem,
nixpkgs ? fetchTarball {
url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${pinnedNixpkgs.rev}.tar.gz";
sha256 = pinnedNixpkgs.sha256;
},
}:
let
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
config = {};
overlays = [];
};
in
pkgs.mkShellNoCC {
packages = [
# The default formatter for Nix code
# https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt
pkgs.nixfmt-rfc-style
];
}