From d34cd13a317dd0df5af9f3a67ad22e9ea8f9e505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:24:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add nix-exec package

---
 .../interpreters/nix-exec/default.nix         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix               |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pkgs/development/interpreters/nix-exec/default.nix

diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/nix-exec/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/nix-exec/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..999d4d8a0d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/nix-exec/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, nix }: let
+  version = "1.0.0";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "nix-exec-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/shlevy/nix-exec/releases/download/v${version}/nix-exec-${version}.tar.xz";
+
+    sha256 = "0w89ma69iil1ki68zvs1l0ii0d87in64791l3a4yzyv9d3ncl3w6";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig nix ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Run programs defined in nix expressions";
+
+    homepage = https://github.com/shlevy/nix-exec;
+
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.shlevy ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 99a8a733b7f..40b2d64cc94 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3802,6 +3802,10 @@ let
     pythonProtobuf = pythonPackages.protobuf;
   };
 
+  nix-exec = callPackage ../development/interpreters/nix-exec {
+    nix = nixUnstable;
+  };
+
   octave = callPackage ../development/interpreters/octave {
     fltk = fltk13;
     qt = null;