The goal of this project is to provide a reliable file creation tool for use with nix
Mainly with hjem, and possibly for creating /etc in NixOS
Note: any option set to null here is optional
{
"files": [
{
"type": "copy",
"source": "./sources/file",
"target": "./outputs/file",
"permissions": null,
"uid": null,
"gid": null,
"clobber": null
},
{
"type": "symlink",
"source": "./sources/file",
"target": "./outputs/symlink",
"permissions": null,
"uid": null,
"gid": null,
"clobber": null
},
{
"type": "modify",
"target": "./outputs/modified",
"permissions": null,
"uid": null,
"gid": null
},
{
"type": "directory",
"target": "./outputs/directory",
"permissions": null,
"uid": null,
"gid": null,
"clobber": null
},
{
"type": "delete",
"target": "./outputs/delete"
}
],
"clobber_by_default": false,
"version": 1
}
With the sources directory containing:
$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 sources
drwxr-xr-x sources
.rw-r--r-- └── fileAnd the outputs directory looking like this before hand:
$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 outputs
drwxr-xr-x outputs
.rw-r--r-- ├── delete
.rw-r--r-- └── modifiedThis should output:
$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 outputs
drwxr-xr-x outputs
drwxr-xr-x ├── directory
.rw-r--r-- ├── file
.rw-r--r-- ├── modified
lrwxrwxrwx └── symlink -> /absolute/path/sources/file- 0 Success
- 1 Generic failure
- 2 Manifest/Program version mismatch
- 3 Manifest deserialization failure