Sleek Manifest File Handler

The goal of this project is to provide a reliable file creation tool for use with nix

Mainly with hjem, and possibly for creating /etc in NixOS

Example manifest

Note: any option set to null here is optional

{
  "files": [
    {
      "type": "copy",
      "source": "./sources/file",
      "target": "./outputs/file",
      "permissions": null,
      "uid": null,
      "gid": null,
      "clobber": null
    },
    {
      "type": "symlink",
      "source": "./sources/file",
      "target": "./outputs/symlink",
      "permissions": null,
      "uid": null,
      "gid": null,
      "clobber": null
    },
    {
      "type": "modify",
      "target": "./outputs/modified",
      "permissions": null,
      "uid": null,
      "gid": null
    },
    {
      "type": "directory",
      "target": "./outputs/directory",
      "permissions": null,
      "uid": null,
      "gid": null,
      "clobber": null
    },
    {
      "type": "delete",
      "target": "./outputs/delete"
    }
  ],
  "clobber_by_default": false,
  "version": 1
}

With the sources directory containing:

$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 sources
drwxr-xr-x sources
.rw-r--r-- └── file

And the outputs directory looking like this before hand:

$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 outputs
drwxr-xr-x outputs
.rw-r--r-- ├── delete
.rw-r--r-- └── modified

This should output:

$ eza --long --no-user --no-time --no-filesize --tree -L 2 outputs
drwxr-xr-x outputs
drwxr-xr-x ├── directory
.rw-r--r-- ├── file
.rw-r--r-- ├── modified
lrwxrwxrwx └── symlink -> /absolute/path/sources/file

Exit codes

• 0 Success
• 1 Generic failure
• 2 Manifest/Program version mismatch
• 3 Manifest deserialization failure