Add a Nix Flake, overlay, or make a nixpkg to install oxide cli

[tonybutt]

Target component

• CLI
• SDK
• Something else
• Not sure

Overview

I made a simple derivation to install the oxide cli on my NixOS box like so:

oxide = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
              name = "oxide";
              src = pkgs.fetchurl {
                url = "https://github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide.rs/releases/download/v0.8.0+20241009.0/oxide-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz";
                sha256 = "BH6EkQDq9lBpvcJX1tud150RItYGl2o3hCbfk9x7Zg4=";
              };
              phases = [
                "installPhase"
                "patchPhase"
              ];
              installPhase = ''
                mkdir -p $out/bin
                tar -xvf $src -C $out/bin --strip-components 1
                chmod +x $out/bin/oxide
              '';
            };

However, it would be nice to actually compile the cli with nix with rustPlatform.buildRustPackage instead.

I am happy to maintain this for now in nixpkgs and this would allow a simple way to use oxide cli with nix package manager. I noticed you have a flake for your control plane already so figured you might have some expertise to get that working within this project!

I attempted to get that compiling but my understanding of rust workspaces was a bit limited to get that working.

In the mean time, nix users can use the derivation above to install for now. I'll work on a flake PR in my free time.

Implementation details

No response

Anything else you would like to add?

No response

[djacu]

Hey @tonybutt

See #950 and #951 for an issue I raised as well as a PR to change the dependencies of oxide-rs.

I packaged version 0.7.0 back in September but didn't have a way to test it. Since then @sarcasticadmin got us access so we could evaluate if the CLI works as expected being packaged with Nix. I've got a draft PR open right now to add version 0.9.0 to nixpkgs. Currently trying some patching trickery to see if it is possible to build it without having #951 being merged. See NixOS/nixpkgs#366077