portable-svc/default.nix

{ pkgs, lib, stdenv }:
/*
  Create a systemd portable service image
  https://systemd.io/PORTABLE_SERVICES/

  Example:
  …
  pkgs.portableService {
    name = "hello";
    version = "2.4.3";
    description = "hello portable";

    units = [ hello-service ./files/hello.socket ];

    symlinks = [
      { object = "${pkgs.cacert}/etc/ssl"; symlink = "/etc/ssl"; }
      { object = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash"; symlink = "/bin/sh"; }
    ];
  }
  …
*/
{ name
, version ? "dev"
, description ? null
, homepage ? null
, units ? [ ]
, symlinks ? [ ]
, contents ? [ ]
, squashfsTools ? pkgs.squashfsTools
, squash-compression ? "xz -Xdict-size 100%"
, squash-block-size ? "1M"
}:

let
  image-name = "${name}_${version}";

  os-release-params = lib.filterAttrs (n: v: v != null) {
    PORTABLE_ID = name;
    PORTABLE_PRETTY_NAME = description;
    HOME_URL = homepage;
    ID = "nixos";
    PRETTY_NAME = "NixOS";
    BUILD_ID = "rolling";
  };

  os-release = pkgs.writeText "os-release" (lib.generators.toKeyValue {} os-release-params);

  getUnitName = u:
    if lib.isDerivation u then u.name
    else if builtins.isPath u then baseNameOf u
    else throw "unit must be either derivation or path";

  rootfs = stdenv.mkDerivation {
    name = "rootfs";
    serviceName = name;
    builder = ./build-rootfs.sh;
    inherit units;
    unitNames = map getUnitName units;
    osRelease = os-release;
    objects = map (x: x.object) symlinks;
    targets = map (x: x.symlink) symlinks;
  };
in

stdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "${image-name}.raw";
  nativeBuildInputs = [ squashfsTools ];

  buildCommand = ''
    closureInfo=${pkgs.closureInfo { rootPaths = contents ++ [rootfs]; }}

    mkdir -p nix/store
    for i in $(< $closureInfo/store-paths); do
      cp -a "$i" "''${i:1}"
    done

    mksquashfs nix ${rootfs}/* $out \
      -quiet -noappend \
      -keep-as-directory \
      -all-root -root-mode 755 \
      -b ${squash-block-size} -comp ${squash-compression}
  '';
}