These are scripts that I have written to remove the tedious nature of creating nix package derivations. The goal of these scripts is not to create a perfect package derivation.

Build Package in sandbox

nix-build <path-to-nixpkgs> -A <package> --option sandbox true

nix-build -I nixpkgs=<path-to-nixpkgs> check-meta.nix -A [ maintainers, license, homepage, broken ]

List are packages that have given meta attribute

• maintainers :: checks that maintainer is defined
• license :: checks that a license is defined
• homepage :: checks that a homepage is defined
• broken :: checks for all packages marked broken

python/python-package-init.py <pypi-name> [--version <pypi-version>]

Creates a default.nix derivation to go into nixpkgs/pkgs/development/python-modules/<pypi-name>/default.nix. This script is overly verbose so that you don't have to remember the name of attributes. Delete the ones that you don't need.

python/python-modules.sh <path-to-nixpkgs>

List all packages that are still in pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix.