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+{
+  lib,
+  buildGoModule,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  coreutils,
+  bash,
+  stdenv,
+}:
+
+buildGoModule {
+  pname = "mkuimage";
+  version = "0-unstable-2024-02-28";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "u-root";
+    repo = "mkuimage";
+    rev = "899a47eaaa318bd2327dc94d964ccda40a784037";
+    hash = "sha256-sb/LtwAN7RN8jWG/x6pomz2Q+vKekA/teC7U5NVb2qY=";
+  };
+
+  vendorHash = "sha256-KX9uv5m4N4+7gOgjhotRac9sz8tWSJ1krq98RWdsbzg=";
+
+  subPackages = [
+    "cmd/gentpldeps"
+    "cmd/mkuimage"
+  ];
+
+  CGO_ENABLED = "0";
+
+  ldflags = [ "-s" ];
+
+  # Tests are failing on darwin as they try to compile u-root binaries
+  # that only work on linux.
+  #
+  # Notice that due to some legacy/bug in buildGoModule, the build isn't
+  # failing even the tests are, as we get a false-positive the output
+  # filtering: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/349468
+  doCheck = stdenv.isLinux;
+
+  # The tests want to copy /bin/bash and /bin/ls, but we don't have those.
+  # As these are interesting e2e tests to check if things work, we substitute
+  # them with the actual paths instead of just skipping the tests.
+  preCheck = ''
+    substituteInPlace ./cmd/mkuimage/main_test.go \
+      --replace-fail '-files=/bin/bash"' '-files=${bash}/bin/bash:bin/bash"' \
+      --replace-fail '-files=/bin/ls"' '-files=${coreutils}/bin/ls:bin/ls"' \
+      --replace-fail '-files=/bin/bash' '-files=${bash}/bin/bash'
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Create small Go-based root file systems -- with support for CPIOs and (TBD) Docker images";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/u-root/mkuimage";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ katexochen ];
+    mainProgram = "mkuimage";
+  };
+}