python3Packages.elevate: init at 0.1.3

Needed by some Python software to re-exec with super-user privileges.

Add a patch to work correctly with NixOS shell script wrappers for
python executables.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/elevate/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elevate/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cfb1dbf068d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/elevate/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, fetchpatch, setuptools-scm }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "elevate";
+  version = "0.1.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "53ad19fa1de301fb1de3f8768fb3a5894215716fd96a475690c4d0ff3b1de209";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+    # This is for not calling shell wrappers through Python, which fails.
+    url = "https://github.com/rkitover/elevate/commit/148b2bf698203ea39c9fe5d635ecd03cd94051af.patch";
+    sha256 = "1ky3z1jxl1g28wbwbx8qq8jgx8sa8pr8s3fdcpdhdx1blw28cv61";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools-scm
+  ];
+
+  # No tests included
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "elevate" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python module for re-launching the current process as super-user";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/barneygale/elevate";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ rkitover ];
+  };
+}