Import nix package without default.nix

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Hi! I’m trying to import this package in my shell.nix

As you can see, it don’t have default.nix, but have release.nix, so I’m trying

let  proto3-suite-src = import (
        fetchTarball "https://github.com/awakesecurity/proto3-suite/tarball/master"
      );
     proto3-suite = pkgs'.callPackage (proto3-suite-src + "/release.nix") {};
in

But nix-shell still tries to evaluate default.nix for some reason:

opening file '/nix/store/8hja5xada0m86p4r5ljlhqvi49i7i27m-source/default.nix': No such file
 or directory

What’s wrong there and how to import packages like this?

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This should work:

with import <nixpkgs> {};

let 
  proto3-suite-src = fetchTarball "https://github.com/awakesecurity/proto3-suite/tarball/master";
  proto3-suite = import (proto3-suite-src + "/release.nix") {};
in mkShell {
  buildInputs = [ proto3-suite.proto3-suite-linux ];
}
3

Thanks a lot! It worked!