How can I add extensions to Freshrss on NixOS?

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I have a simple freshrss config:

     services.freshrss = {
        enable = true;
        baseUrl = "http://freshrss";
        defaultUser = "Lxx";
        passwordFile = "/run/secrets/freshrss";
     };

This works as expected but I’d like to add extensions to Freshrss and as I couldn’t find a Nix option for this I tried the manual method of creating /var/lib/freshrss/extensions and placing them there. However this does not seem to have an effect.

Does anyone else here use Freshrss with extensions? How do I make them work?

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This worked for me:

    services.freshrss = {
      enable = true;
      package = pkgs.freshrss.overrideAttrs (old: {
          overrideConfig = pkgs.writeText "constants.local.php" ''
            <?php
              define('DATA_PATH', getenv('FRESHRSS_DATA_PATH'));
              define('THIRDPARTY_EXTENSIONS_PATH', getenv('FRESHRSS_DATA_PATH') . '/extensions');
              define('EXTENSIONS_PATH', getenv('FRESHRSS_DATA_PATH') . '/extensions');
        '';
      });
    ...

I think it was originally looking for the extensions folder inside the original derivation.
This makes it look in the data directory instead.

(I took some hints from the package derivation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fcc147b1e9358a8386b2c4368bd928e1f63a7df2/pkgs/servers/web-apps/freshrss/default.nix#L29)