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the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in a very long document lacking an overview section. search did not help because it occurs so often. - clarify wording in the definition - add an overview of installable types - add "installable" to glossary - link to definition from occurrences of the term - be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed - installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
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Examples
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Bundle Hello:
# nix bundle nixpkgs#hello # ./hello Hello, world! -
Bundle a specific version of Nix:
# nix bundle github:NixOS/nix/e3ddffb27e5fc37a209cfd843c6f7f6a9460a8ec # ./nix --version nix (Nix) 2.4pre20201215_e3ddffb -
Bundle a Hello using a specific bundler:
# nix bundle --bundler github:NixOS/bundlers#toDockerImage nixpkgs#hello # docker load < hello-2.10.tar.gz # docker run hello-2.10:latest hello Hello, world!
Description
nix bundle, by default, packs the closure of the installable into a single
self-extracting executable. See the bundlers
homepage for more details.
Note
This command only works on Linux.
Flake output attributes
If no flake output attribute is given, nix bundle tries the following
flake output attributes:
bundlers.<system>.default
If an attribute name is given, nix bundle tries the following flake
output attributes:
bundlers.<system>.<name>
Bundlers
A bundler is specified by a flake output attribute named
bundlers.<system>.<name>. It looks like this:
bundlers.x86_64-linux = rec {
identity = drv: drv;
blender_2_79 = drv: self.packages.x86_64-linux.blender_2_79;
default = identity;
};
A bundler must be a function that accepts an arbitrary value (typically a derivation or app definition) and returns a derivation.
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