I need to generate a number of scripts in my configuration and make them into a single package (for ease of reference, because there are a lot of them).
So far, I’m creating the scripts via writeShellApplication
, making them into packages via an overlay
, merging them with buildEnv
and then adding the resulting package to `systemPackages.
Something like:
nixpkgs.overlays = [ (final: prev: {
my-hello-1 = final.writeShellApplication {
name = "my-hello-1-script";
text = "echo my hello wolrd 1";
};
my-hello-2 = final.writeShellApplication {
name = "my-hello-2-script";
text = "echo my hello wolrd 1";
};
my-hello-scripts = final.buildEnv {
name = "my-hello-scripts";
paths = [ final.my-hello-1 final.my-hello-2 ];
};
}) ];
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.my-hello-scripts ];
This works, but I don’t really need the my-hello-1
and my-hello-2
packages… can you think of a way to make do without needing them?
There’s probably a cleaner way to do this, but you can look at abstractions as a way to reduce all that code repetiton.