From c71d063a2fce96001c7ef99b301dfbd0c29ebde1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:49:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow calling flakes without a flake.lock

If no inputs but "self" are specified, Nix will not generate a
flake.lock at all. In this case, Flakes are mostly just used to
provide a more pure Nix experience, while sources are locked through
some other means (niv, ob thunk, manually, etc.). Supporting this is a
little weird, but it ends up working for my
repo (https://github.com/matthewbauer/nixiosk).
---
 default.nix | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 63020e9..2ca2c5d 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ let
       assert flake.edition == 201909;
       outputs;
 
+  callLocklessFlake = flakeSrc:
+    let
+      flake = import (flakeSrc + "/flake.nix");
+      outputs = flakeSrc // (flake.outputs ({ self = outputs; }));
+    in outputs;
+
   rootSrc = let
     dir = builtins.readDir src;
     gitDir = builtins.readDir (src + "/.git");
@@ -144,7 +150,9 @@ let
       lockFile.nodes;
 
   result =
-    if lockFile.version == 4
+    if !(builtins.pathExists lockFilePath)
+    then callLocklessFlake rootSrc
+    else if lockFile.version == 4
     then callFlake4 rootSrc (lockFile.inputs)
     else if lockFile.version >= 5 && lockFile.version <= 7
     then allNodes.${lockFile.root}