apt-offline: offline APT package manager

lib/maintainers.nix

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   edwtjo = "Edward Tjörnhammar <ed@cflags.cc>";
   eelco = "Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>";
   ertes = "Ertugrul Söylemez <es@ertes.de>";
+  falsifian = "James Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca>";
   garbas = "Rok Garbas <rok@garbas.si>";
   goibhniu = "Cillian de Róiste <cillian.deroiste@gmail.com>";
   guibert = "David Guibert <david.guibert@gmail.com>";

pkgs/tools/misc/apt-offline/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, bash, buildPythonPackage }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "1.3";
+  name = "apt-offline-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    #url = "https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3855/${name}.tar.gz";
+    # The above URL has two problems: it requires one to be logged in, and it
+    # uses a CA that curl doesn't know about.  Instead, we use this mirror:
+    url = "http://www.falsifian.org/a/cFi5/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1sp7ai2abzhbg9y84700qziybphvpzl2nk3mz1d1asivzyjvxlxy";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  # Requires python-qt4 (feel free to get it working).
+  preFixup = ''rm "$out/bin/apt-offline-gui"'';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "offline APT package manager";
+    license = licences.gpl3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.falsifian ];
+  };
+}

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -430,6 +430,8 @@ let
 
   analog = callPackage ../tools/admin/analog {};
 
+  apt-offline = callPackage ../tools/misc/apt-offline { };
+
   archivemount = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/archivemount { };
 
   arandr = callPackage ../tools/X11/arandr { };