nix-super/src/nix/flake-metadata.md

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Examples

• Show what nixpkgs resolves to:

  # nix flake metadata nixpkgs
  Resolved URL:  github:edolstra/dwarffs
  Locked URL:    github:edolstra/dwarffs/f691e2c991e75edb22836f1dbe632c40324215c5
  Description:   A filesystem that fetches DWARF debug info from the Internet on demand
  Path:          /nix/store/769s05vjydmc2lcf6b02az28wsa9ixh1-source
  Revision:      f691e2c991e75edb22836f1dbe632c40324215c5
  Last modified: 2021-01-21 15:41:26
  Inputs:
  ├───nix: github:NixOS/nix/6254b1f5d298ff73127d7b0f0da48f142bdc753c
  │   ├───lowdown-src: github:kristapsdz/lowdown/1705b4a26fbf065d9574dce47a94e8c7c79e052f
  │   └───nixpkgs: github:NixOS/nixpkgs/ad0d20345219790533ebe06571f82ed6b034db31
  └───nixpkgs follows input 'nix/nixpkgs'
  

• Show information about dwarffs in JSON format:

  # nix flake metadata dwarffs --json | jq .
  {
    "description": "A filesystem that fetches DWARF debug info from the Internet on demand",
    "lastModified": 1597153508,
    "locked": {
      "lastModified": 1597153508,
      "narHash": "sha256-VHg3MYVgQ12LeRSU2PSoDeKlSPD8PYYEFxxwkVVDRd0=",
      "owner": "edolstra",
      "repo": "dwarffs",
      "rev": "d181d714fd36eb06f4992a1997cd5601e26db8f5",
      "type": "github"
    },
    "locks": { ... },
    "original": {
      "id": "dwarffs",
      "type": "indirect"
    },
    "originalUrl": "flake:dwarffs",
    "path": "/nix/store/hang3792qwdmm2n0d9nsrs5n6bsws6kv-source",
    "resolved": {
      "owner": "edolstra",
      "repo": "dwarffs",
      "type": "github"
    },
    "resolvedUrl": "github:edolstra/dwarffs",
    "revision": "d181d714fd36eb06f4992a1997cd5601e26db8f5",
    "url": "github:edolstra/dwarffs/d181d714fd36eb06f4992a1997cd5601e26db8f5"
  }
  

Description

This command shows information about the flake specified by the flake reference flake-url. It resolves the flake reference using the flake registry, fetches it, and prints some meta data. This includes:

• Resolved URL: If flake-url is a flake identifier, then this is the flake reference that specifies its actual location, looked up in the flake registry.

• Locked URL: A flake reference that contains a commit or content hash and thus uniquely identifies a specific flake version.

• Description: A one-line description of the flake, taken from the description field in flake.nix.

• Path: The store path containing the source code of the flake.

• Revision: The Git or Mercurial commit hash of the locked flake.

• Revisions: The number of ancestors of the Git or Mercurial commit of the locked flake. Note that this is not available for github flakes.

• Last modified: For Git or Mercurial flakes, this is the commit time of the commit of the locked flake; for tarball flakes, it's the most recent timestamp of any file inside the tarball.

• Inputs: The flake inputs with their corresponding lock file entries.

With --json, the output is a JSON object with the following fields:

• original and originalUrl: The flake reference specified by the user (flake-url) in attribute set and URL representation.

• resolved and resolvedUrl: The resolved flake reference (see above) in attribute set and URL representation.

• locked and lockedUrl: The locked flake reference (see above) in attribute set and URL representation.

• description: See Description above.

• path: See Path above.

• revision: See Revision above.

• revCount: See Revisions above.

• lastModified: See Last modified above.

• locks: The contents of flake.lock.

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