factorio-headless on nixOS?

[mifa]

Hi, my home server is my first experience with nixOS, so I'm pretty new to this.

My experience running factorio-headless has been a bit mixed. It seems that the official repository is not keeping up with new versions of Factorio. I already set up configuration.nix to pull directly from nixpkgs master, so I get the newest package version. Sometimes even that is not enough as it takes a while for the version update to land.

Ideally I would like to just pull whatever the newest version is from the official website, but I don't want to have to set up everything myself.

Is anyone running factorio-headless on nixOS and how do you handle this?

[pltanton]

You can override factorio package for your own to use latest source version as soon as possible, take a look at the derivation sources, usually it works. Or fork nixpkgs and make a PR, like this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/367153/files