Nix Archive

This is a library for generating Nix Archive (NAR) files. This package is currently incomplete and only satisfies one particular need, being able to generate Nix Sha256 hashes for a git checkout at a specified git hash (without actually having Nix installed).

It is written as a reusable library and command line wrapper around the library.

What works

• Generating a NAR file from a git repo either at HEAD of the repo or at a specified git hash.
• Generate the Nix SHA256 hash from a git repo either at HEAD of the repo or at a specified git hash (without actually generating the NAR file).
• Generate a Nix SHA256 hash for a given file.

Required to make this complete

This is what is needed for this to become complete enough to upload to Hackage:

• Generate a NAR file from a specified directory.
• Generate a Nix SHA256 hash from a specified directory.
• Unpack a NAR file.
• Tests.