padarom/onedriver-flake

Use Jeff Stafford's Onedriver utility in Nix

Nix Flake for Onedriver

I am not particularily fond of the onedrive implementation from nixpkgs, which keeps corrupting my OneDrive files, creating duplicates and deleting files without my knowledge. Coming from Arch I used to use onedriver by Jeff Stafford which worked much better.

As I am still rather new to Nix and NixOS it has taken me a bit to get this working, but now I can install onedriver via Nix / home-manager.

To do so, add this to your flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    onedriver.url = "github:padarom/onedriver-flake";
  };

  outputs = { onedriver, ... }:
  {
    # Set up the overlay (depending on the rest of your flake)
    overlays = [ onedriver.overlays.default ];

    # Use the nixosModule for home-manager (depending on how you configure your home-manager)
    home-manager.sharedModules = [ onedriver.nixosModules.default ];
  };
}

Within your home-manager configuration you can then enable the service.

{ lib, config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services.onedriver = {
    enable = true;
    mountPoint = "$HOME/OneDrive";
  };
}

Note!

This being my first flake there are a lot of things I don't understand yet.

• The flake exports onedriver as a package, but I haven't been able to make the overlay work internally, such that the module references the correct pkg.onedriver that we export ourselves. That is why you even need to specify the overlay in your own flake in the first place. I haven't yet been able to fix this, but I assume there is a way to get this going without having the user of my flake enable the overlay manually.
• The flake is currently specific to home-manager. Is there a way to make it possible to specify all options system-wide or user-specific? Generally I assume OneDrive would be mounted user-specific, but not everyone uses home-manager.