#Nix fetcher for Minetest ContentDB

Install and update your minetest mods with a nix flake

#Usage

First, install nix and enable flakes.

Then, install nix-mt, which is just a wrapped nix with the fetcher plugin

nix profile install sourcehut:~fgaz/nix-minetest-fetcher#nix-mt

Create a project from the template

mkdir my-server-mods
cd my-server-mods
nix flake init -t sourcehut:~fgaz/nix-minetest-fetcher

Finally, build the project using the patched nix

nix-mt build

#Known issues

• Packages whose zip contains multiple top-level items will fail to install. See nix#7083.
• The protocol ("x-minetest-contentdb") is provisional and may change in the future if minetest#7400 is closed.

#Alternatives

• The ContentDB browser included in Minetest
• minetools

Both of these are imperative and require the packages to remain on disk to track their versions, since they both use the release .conf field.

#Contributing

You can send patches to my public-inbox mailing list or to any of the contacts listed at fgaz.me/about. Or you can send a pull request to the Codeberg mirror.

Issues are tracked at https://todo.sr.ht/~fgaz/nix-minetest-fetcher