From 51c3e2176a1836870b55e1ff9a083c260c924f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Frijters <sfrijters@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:39:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nix-required-mounts: fix eval errors due to builtins.toFile

`nix-instantiate -A nix-required-mounts.tests` now passes (again)
---
 pkgs/by-name/ni/nix-required-mounts/closure.nix | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ni/nix-required-mounts/closure.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ni/nix-required-mounts/closure.nix
index 56b6253838eb..d4aadececf6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ni/nix-required-mounts/closure.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ni/nix-required-mounts/closure.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   runCommand,
   python3Packages,
   allowedPatterns,
+  formats,
 }:
 runCommand "allowed-patterns.json"
   {
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ runCommand "allowed-patterns.json"
     ) (builtins.attrNames allowedPatterns);
     env = {
       storeDir = "${builtins.storeDir}/";
-      shallowConfigPath = builtins.toFile "shallow-config.json" (builtins.toJSON allowedPatterns);
+      shallowConfigPath = (formats.json { }).generate "shallow-config.json" allowedPatterns;
     };
   }
   ''