From 5969551a5cc52f9470b5ff5ca01327bf4bda82c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timo Kaufmann <timokau@zoho.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:02:38 +0100
Subject: home-manager: add instantiate subcommand

It can be useful to simply instantiate a Home Manager configuration
without actually building it, for example for the purpose of
pre-building it with some custom command.

PR #1099
---
 home-manager/home-manager | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'home-manager/home-manager')

diff --git a/home-manager/home-manager b/home-manager/home-manager
index 7fa5c35c300..f7436e3e290 100644
--- a/home-manager/home-manager
+++ b/home-manager/home-manager
@@ -74,6 +74,28 @@ function setHomeManagerNixPath() {
     done
 }
 
+function doInstantiate() {
+    setConfigFile
+    setHomeManagerNixPath
+
+    local extraArgs=("$@")
+
+    for p in "${EXTRA_NIX_PATH[@]}"; do
+        extraArgs=("${extraArgs[@]}" "-I" "$p")
+    done
+
+    if [[ -v VERBOSE ]]; then
+        extraArgs=("${extraArgs[@]}" "--show-trace")
+    fi
+
+    nix-instantiate \
+        "<home-manager/home-manager/home-manager.nix>" \
+        "${extraArgs[@]}" \
+        "${PASSTHROUGH_OPTS[@]}" \
+        --argstr confPath "$HOME_MANAGER_CONFIG" \
+        --argstr confAttr "$HOME_MANAGER_CONFIG_ATTRIBUTE"
+}
+
 function doBuildAttr() {
     setConfigFile
     setHomeManagerNixPath
@@ -441,6 +463,8 @@ function doHelp() {
     echo
     echo "  build        Build configuration into result directory"
     echo
+    echo "  instantiate  Instantiate the configuration and print the resulting derivation"
+    echo
     echo "  switch       Build and activate configuration"
     echo
     echo "  generations  List all home environment generations"
@@ -471,7 +495,7 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
     opt="$1"
     shift
     case $opt in
-        build|edit|expire-generations|generations|help|news|packages|remove-generations|switch|uninstall)
+        build|instantiate|edit|expire-generations|generations|help|news|packages|remove-generations|switch|uninstall)
             COMMAND="$opt"
             ;;
         -2)
@@ -542,6 +566,9 @@ case $COMMAND in
     build)
         doBuild
         ;;
+    instantiate)
+        doInstantiate
+        ;;
     switch)
         doSwitch
         ;;
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