Add flag --override-input to override specific lock file entries

E.g.

  $ nix flake update ~/Misc/eelco-configurations/hagbard \
    --override-input 'dwarffs/nixpkgs' ../my-nixpkgs

overrides the 'nixpkgs' input of the 'dwarffs' input of the top-level
flake.

Fixes #2837.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/flake/lockfile.cc b/src/libexpr/flake/lockfile.cc
index a7291db5b..b92ffb70e 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/flake/lockfile.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/flake/lockfile.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "lockfile.hh"
 #include "store-api.hh"
+#include "fetchers/regex.hh"
 
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 
@@ -104,4 +105,20 @@ void LockFile::write(const Path & path) const
     writeFile(path, fmt("%s\n", *this));
 }
 
+InputPath parseInputPath(std::string_view s)
+{
+    InputPath path;
+
+    for (auto & elem : tokenizeString<std::vector<std::string>>(s, "/")) {
+        if (!std::regex_match(elem, fetchers::flakeIdRegex))
+            throw Error("invalid flake input path element '%s'", elem);
+        path.push_back(elem);
+    }
+
+    if (path.empty())
+        throw Error("flake input path is empty");
+
+    return path;
+}
+
 }