diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/fix-rc-apparmor-functions-FHS.patch b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/fix-rc-apparmor-functions-FHS.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0e43f12bcecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/fix-rc-apparmor-functions-FHS.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+diff --git a/rc.apparmor.functions b/rc.apparmor.functions
+index 96cb23d33..4401fc420 100644
+--- a/rc.apparmor.functions
++++ b/rc.apparmor.functions
+@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@
+ 
+ # Some nice defines that we use
+ 
+-PARSER=/sbin/apparmor_parser
++PATH="@PATH@${PATH:+:$PATH}"
++export PATH
++
++PARSER=$(command -v apparmor_parser)
+ PARSER_OPTS=
+ # Suppress warnings when booting in quiet mode
+ if [ "${QUIET:-no}" = yes ] || [ "${quiet:-n}" = y ]; then
+@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ ADDITIONAL_PROFILE_DIR=
+ if [ -n "$ADDITIONAL_PROFILE_DIR" ] && [ -d "$ADDITIONAL_PROFILE_DIR" ]; then
+ 	PROFILE_DIRS="$PROFILE_DIRS $ADDITIONAL_PROFILE_DIR"
+ fi
+-AA_STATUS=/usr/sbin/aa-status
++AA_STATUS=$(command -v aa-status)
+ SECURITYFS=/sys/kernel/security
+ SFS_MOUNTPOINT="${SECURITYFS}/apparmor"
+ 
+@@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ is_container_with_internal_policy() {
+ 	local ns_name
+ 
+ 	# WSL needs to be detected explicitly
+-	if [ -x /usr/bin/systemd-detect-virt ] && \
++	if command -v systemd-detect-virt >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
+ 	   [ "$(systemd-detect-virt --container)" = "wsl" ]; then
+ 		return 0
+ 	fi
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0e95a3f13b47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ap/apparmor-init/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  which,
+  replaceVars,
+  perl,
+  buildPackages,
+  runtimeShellPackage,
+
+  # apparmor deps
+  libapparmor,
+  apparmor-bin-utils,
+  apparmor-parser,
+
+  # runtime deps
+  gnused,
+  gnugrep,
+  systemd,
+  coreutils,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "apparmor-init";
+  inherit (libapparmor) version src;
+
+  sourceRoot = "${finalAttrs.src.name}/init";
+
+  patches = [
+    (replaceVars ./fix-rc-apparmor-functions-FHS.patch {
+      PATH = lib.makeBinPath [
+        # bash script needs a bunch of binaries, but we can't wrapProgram because it is more a library that will be used with `source`
+        apparmor-bin-utils
+        apparmor-parser
+        coreutils
+        gnused
+        gnugrep
+        systemd
+      ];
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    patchShebangs .
+
+    substituteInPlace apparmor.service \
+      --replace-fail "/bin/true" "${lib.getExe' coreutils "true"}"
+
+    # the various provided scripts hardcode /lib/apparmor
+    for FILE in aa-teardown apparmor.service apparmor.systemd profile-load
+    do
+      substituteInPlace "$FILE" \
+        --replace-fail "/lib/apparmor" "$out/lib/apparmor"
+    done
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    which
+    perl
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    runtimeShellPackage
+  ];
+
+  makeFlags = [
+    "POD2MAN=${lib.getExe' buildPackages.perl "pod2man"}"
+    "POD2HTML=${lib.getExe' buildPackages.perl "pod2html"}"
+    "MANDIR=share/man"
+  ];
+
+  installFlags = [
+    "DESTDIR=${placeholder "out"}"
+    "DISTRO=unknown"
+    "USR_SBINDIR=${placeholder "out"}/bin"
+    "SBINDIR=${placeholder "out"}/bin"
+    "LOCALEDIR=${placeholder "out"}/share/locale"
+    "SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR=${placeholder "out"}/lib/systemd/system"
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  installTargets = [
+    "install"
+    # Likely not very useful for NixOS, as this is missing some NixOS awareness such as loading declarative profiles from the store
+    # However, the cost is low, it may be useful in the future or on non-NixOS systems, so install the systemd service too.
+    "install-systemd"
+  ];
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  meta = libapparmor.meta // {
+    description = "Mandatory access control system - init files";
+  };
+})