#!/usr/bin/env bash # Installs packages to the nix profile using nix profile # Reference: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-declarative-package-management set -ex nix_packages=( # Personal tools "vimHugeX" "ranger" "jq" "yq" "pass" "gnupg" # Professional tools "kubernetes-helm" "vault" "kubectl" "rancher" "terraform" "terragrunt" "skopeo" "awscli2" ) mkdir -p ~/.config/nixpkgs/ templated_insert=$(for nix_package in ${nix_packages[@]}; do echo " $nix_package"; done) # Reference: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-profile-in-combination-with-declarative-package-management/21228/9 cat << EOF > ~/.config/nixpkgs/flake.nix { description = "A declarative system installation"; inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-22.11"; # also possible: `nixos-unstable` }; outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" "aarch64-darwin" ]; # Generate a user-friendly version number. version = builtins.substring 0 8 self.lastModifiedDate; # Helper function to generate an attrset '{ x86_64-linux = f "x86_64-linux"; ... }'. forAllSystems = nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems; # Nixpkgs instantiated for supported system types. nixpkgsFor = forAllSystems (system: import nixpkgs { inherit system; }); in { packages = forAllSystems (system: let pkgs = nixpkgsFor.\${system}; in { default = self.packages.\${system}.myPackageCollection; myPackageCollection = # libs and clis let pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.\${system}; # here we need just legacy packages in pkgs.buildEnv { name = "myPackages"; paths = with pkgs; [ ${templated_insert} ]; extraOutputsToInstall = [ "man" "doc" ]; }; }); # packages }; # outputs } EOF install_nix_packages() { # The name of the package we are going to install, needed to check for presence/uninstall package_name=packages.x86_64-linux.myPackageCollection if [ "${nix_packages[*]}" ]; then if nix profile list | cut -d' ' -f 2 | grep -q "${package_name}"; then echo "Removing previous version of profile" nix profile remove "${package_name}" fi echo "Installing profile" nix profile install "${HOME}/.config/nixpkgs/flake.nix#myPackageCollection" fi } install_nix_packages