Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
I would like to build upon the docker.nix configuration provided in this repository directly from, instead of creating a Dockerfile. This worked well - I imported this repository as input and then imported and customized docker.nix with the supported variables.
However, I found that the extraPkgs parameter installs packages only in the root user's profile directory - /root/.nix-profile. This doesn't work for me, because I need to place a configuration file in /etc.
Proposed solution
I propose to add an additional parameter, e.g. extraBasePkgs that is appended to the contents parameter of pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImageWithNixDb.
Alternative solutions
I tried to use .overrideAttrs on the output of pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImageWithNixDb but failed. This might be an alternative.
Checklist
- checked latest Nix manual (source)
- checked open feature issues and pull requests for possible duplicates
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