Adding extra arguments to callPackage within packagesFromDirectoryRecursive

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I have a flake with a subdirectory of packages, which are all scripts for the devshell of the flake. Some of them may need access to one or more of the flake’s inputs, but I can’t figure out how to get that to happen.

I tried it like this (terranix being a flake input here):

lib.packagesFromDirectoryRecursive {
  inherit (pkgs) newScope;
  callPackage = path: attrs:
    lib.callPackageWith pkgs path (
      attrs
      // { inherit terranix;}
    );
  directory = ./pkgs;

with the package using terranix looking like this:

{
  pkgs,
  lib,
  terranix,
  ...
}:
terranix.lib.terranixConfiguration {
  extraArgs = {
    inherit lib;
  };
  pkgs = pkgs;
  modules = map lib.custom.relativeToRoot ["terranix"];
}

I cannot figure out why this isn’t working.
when inspecting this using the repl, It seems not to find any of the custom inputs that I added. It says it couldn’t find them (Function called without required argument "terranix"). It does work when I manually use callPackage without packagesFromDirectoryRecursive and import every single package on its own, giving the right args.

I have banged my head against this problem for about a day now and found (as far as i can tell) nothing that would point me in the right direction.

Is there any way i can give extra args to these packages in some way?

2

the callPackage definition looks somewhat wonky, have you tried something simpler like

callPackage = lib.callPackageWith (pkgs // { inherit terranix; });

one other option would be to force terranix into pkgs via an overlay

3

The following would suffice:

lib.packagesFromDirectoryRecursive {
  inherit (pkgs) newScope;
  callPackage = pkgs.newScope { inherit terranix; };
  directory = ./pkgs;
};

Don’t use callPackageWith, you’ll miss everything from pkgs.xorg for one.

4

That’s a much better answer than mine, but is passing the scope itself enough? I thought you’d need to reach into its callPackage

5

Not sure what you meant, but this is how callPackage is defined by default:

6

I tried this, but it gives the exact same problem.

7

My mistake then, I didn’t check the nixpkgs lib code. If you pass newScope it develops the callPackage based off it, evidently:

So I presume you’d have to modify newScope itself rather than callPackage (again, untested, I’m not at my machine presently), which starts to look a bit more inelegant :grimacing:

newScope = extra: (pkgs.newScope { inherit terranix; } // extra);

If that still doesn’t work, we’ll need an example repo or such for us to replicate whatever you’re seeing, to be sure the error isn’t from some other code.

8

Hah I’ve been staring at that code for so long, I didn’t see it.
Thanks for the help, It works now.