# A shell to get tooling for Nixpkgs development # # Note: We intentionally don't use Flakes here, # because every time you change any file and do another `nix develop`, # it would create another copy of the entire ~500MB tree in the store. # See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 for the future { system ? builtins.currentSystem, }: let pinnedNixpkgs = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ci/pinned-nixpkgs.json); nixpkgs = fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${pinnedNixpkgs.rev}.tar.gz"; sha256 = pinnedNixpkgs.sha256; }; pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; config = {}; overlays = []; }; in pkgs.mkShellNoCC { packages = [ # The default formatter for Nix code # https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt pkgs.nixfmt-rfc-style ]; }