diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e7c42925c5b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+ansicolors,
+argparse,
+dkjson
+lrexlib-gnu,
+lrexlib-posix,
+ltermbox,
+lua-cmsgpack,
+lua_cliargs,
+lua-term,
+luaffi,http://luarocks.org/dev,
+luuid,
+penlight,
+say,
+luv,
+luasystem,
+mediator_lua,http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto
+mpack,http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto
+nvim-client,http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto
+busted,http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto
+luassert,http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto
+coxpcall,https://luarocks.org/manifests/hisham,1.17.0-1
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..aa922c19860f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -p nix-prefetch-scripts luarocks-nix -i bash
+
+# You'll likely want to use
+# ``
+# nixpkgs $ maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+# ``
+# to update all libraries in that folder.
+# to debug, redirect stderr to stdout with 2>&1
+
+
+# stop the script upon C-C
+set -eu -o pipefail
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+	print_help
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+CSV_FILE="maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv"
+TMP_FILE="$(mktemp)"
+
+exit_trap()
+{
+  local lc="$BASH_COMMAND" rc=$?
+  test $rc -eq 0 || echo -e "*** error $rc: $lc.\nGenerated temporary file in $TMP_FILE" >&2
+}
+trap exit_trap EXIT
+
+print_help() {
+    echo "Usage: $0 <GENERATED_FILE>"
+    echo "(most likely pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix)"
+	echo ""
+	echo " -c <CSV_FILE> to set the list of luarocks package to generate"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+
+while getopts ":hc:" opt; do
+  case $opt in
+    h)
+      print_help
+      ;;
+    c)
+      echo "Loading package list from $OPTARG !" >&2
+      CSV_FILE="$OPTARG"
+      ;;
+    \?)
+      echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
+      ;;
+  esac
+  shift $((OPTIND-1))
+done
+
+GENERATED_NIXFILE="$1"
+
+HEADER="
+/* ${GENERATED_NIXFILE} is an auto-generated file -- DO NOT EDIT!
+Regenerate it with:
+nixpkgs$ ${0} ${GENERATED_NIXFILE}
+
+These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
+*/
+{ self, lua, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+self: super:
+with self;
+{
+"
+
+FOOTER="
+}
+/* GENERATED */
+"
+
+
+function convert_pkg () {
+    pkg="$1"
+	server=""
+	if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
+		server=" --server=$2"
+	fi
+
+    version="${3:-}"
+
+    echo "looking at $pkg (version $version) from server [$server]" >&2
+    cmd="luarocks nix $server $pkg $version"
+    drv="$($cmd)"
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to convert $pkg" >&2
+        echo "$drv" >&2
+    else
+        echo "$drv" | tee -a "$TMP_FILE"
+    fi
+}
+
+# params needed when called via callPackage
+echo "$HEADER" | tee "$TMP_FILE"
+
+# list of packages with format
+# name,server,version
+while IFS=, read -r pkg_name server version
+do
+	if [ -z "$pkg_name" ]; then
+		echo "Skipping empty package name" >&2
+	fi
+	convert_pkg "$pkg_name" "$server" "$version"
+done < "$CSV_FILE"
+
+# close the set
+echo "$FOOTER" | tee -a "$TMP_FILE"
+
+cp "$TMP_FILE" "$GENERATED_NIXFILE"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/build-lua-package.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/build-lua-package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0bed5efe4f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/build-lua-package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+# Generic builder for lua packages
+{ lib
+, lua
+, stdenv
+, wrapLua
+, unzip
+, writeText
+# Whether the derivation provides a lua module or not.
+, toLuaModule
+}:
+
+{
+name ? "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}"
+
+, version
+
+# by default prefix `name` e.g. "lua5.2-${name}"
+, namePrefix ? "lua" + lua.luaversion + "-"
+
+# Dependencies for building the package
+, buildInputs ? []
+
+# Dependencies needed for running the checkPhase.
+# These are added to buildInputs when doCheck = true.
+, checkInputs ? []
+
+# propagate build dependencies so in case we have A -> B -> C,
+# C can import package A propagated by B
+, propagatedBuildInputs ? []
+, propagatedNativeBuildInputs ? []
+
+# used to disable derivation, useful for specific lua versions
+, disabled ? false
+
+# Additional arguments to pass to the makeWrapper function, which wraps
+# generated binaries.
+, makeWrapperArgs ? []
+, external_deps ? propagatedBuildInputs ++ buildInputs
+
+# Skip wrapping of lua programs altogether
+, dontWrapLuaPrograms ? false
+
+, meta ? {}
+
+, passthru ? {}
+, doCheck ? false
+
+# appended to the luarocks generated config
+# in peculiar variables like { EVENT_INCDIR } can be useful to work around
+# luarocks limitations, ie, luarocks consider include/lib folders to be subfolders of the same package in external_deps_dirs
+# as explained in https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/766
+, extraConfig ? ""
+
+# relative to srcRoot, path to the rockspec to use when using rocks
+, rockspecFilename ?  "../*.rockspec"
+
+# must be set for packages that don't have a rock
+, knownRockspec ? null
+
+, ... } @ attrs:
+
+
+# Keep extra attributes from `attrs`, e.g., `patchPhase', etc.
+if disabled
+then throw "${name} not supported for interpreter ${lua}"
+else
+
+let
+
+  deps_dirs= lib.concatStringsSep ", " (
+    map (x: "\"${builtins.toString x}\"") external_deps
+  );
+
+  # TODO
+  # - add rocktrees (look at torch-distro.nix/https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/wiki/Config-file-format)
+  # - silence warnings
+  luarocks_config = "luarocksConfig";
+  luarocks_content = ''
+    local_cache = ""
+    -- array of strings
+    external_deps_dirs = {
+    ${deps_dirs}
+    }
+    rocks_trees = {
+    }
+    ${extraConfig}
+  '';
+in
+toLuaModule ( lua.stdenv.mkDerivation (
+builtins.removeAttrs attrs ["disabled" "checkInputs"] // {
+
+  name = namePrefix + name;
+
+  buildInputs = [ wrapLua lua.pkgs.luarocks ]
+    ++ buildInputs
+    ++ lib.optionals doCheck checkInputs
+    ;
+
+  # propagate lua to active setup-hook in nix-shell
+  propagatedBuildInputs = propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ lua ];
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  # enabled only for src.rock
+  setSourceRoot= let
+    name_only=(builtins.parseDrvName name).name;
+  in
+    lib.optionalString (knownRockspec == null) ''
+    # format is rockspec_basename/source_basename
+    # rockspec can set it via spec.source.dir
+    folder=$(find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -path '*${name_only}*/*'|head -n1)
+    sourceRoot="$folder"
+  '';
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    runHook preConfigure
+
+    cat > ${luarocks_config} <<EOF
+    ${luarocks_content}
+    EOF
+    export LUAROCKS_CONFIG=$PWD/${luarocks_config};
+  ''
+  + lib.optionalString (knownRockspec != null) ''
+
+    # prevents the following type of error:
+    # Inconsistency between rockspec filename (42fm1b3d7iv6fcbhgm9674as3jh6y2sh-luv-1.22.0-1.rockspec) and its contents (luv-1.22.0-1.rockspec)
+    rockspecFilename="$TMP/$(stripHash ''${knownRockspec})"
+    cp ''${knownRockspec} $rockspecFilename
+    runHook postConfigure
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    runHook preBuild
+
+    nix_debug "Using LUAROCKS_CONFIG=$LUAROCKS_CONFIG"
+
+    LUAROCKS=luarocks
+    if (( ''${NIX_DEBUG:-0} >= 1 )); then
+        LUAROCKS="$LUAROCKS --verbose"
+    fi
+
+    patchShebangs .
+
+    runHook postBuild
+  '';
+
+  postFixup = lib.optionalString (!dontWrapLuaPrograms) ''
+    wrapLuaPrograms
+  '' + attrs.postFixup or '''';
+
+  installPhase = attrs.installPhase or ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    # luarocks make assumes sources are available in cwd
+    # After the build is complete, it also installs the rock.
+    # If no argument is given, it looks for a rockspec in the current directory
+    # but some packages have several rockspecs in their source directory so
+    # we force the use of the upper level since it is
+    # the sole rockspec in that folder
+    # maybe we could reestablish dependency checking via passing --rock-trees
+
+    nix_debug "ROCKSPEC $rockspecFilename"
+    nix_debug "cwd: $PWD"
+    $LUAROCKS make --deps-mode=none --tree $out ''${rockspecFilename}
+
+    # to prevent collisions when creating environments
+    # also added -f as it doesn't always exist
+    # don't remove the whole directory as
+    rm -rf $out/lib/luarocks/rocks/manifest
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  passthru = {
+    inherit lua; # The lua interpreter
+  } // passthru;
+
+  meta = with lib.maintainers; {
+    platforms = lua.meta.platforms;
+    # add extra maintainer(s) to every package
+    maintainers = (meta.maintainers or []) ++ [ ];
+  } // meta;
+}))
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/setup-hook.sh
index 5e37bd27f617..3989bedffdb1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/setup-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/setup-hook.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # set -e
 
 nix_print() {
-    if (( "${NIX_DEBUG:-0}" >= $1 )); then
+    if [ ${NIX_DEBUG:-0} -ge $1 ]; then
         echo "$2"
     fi
 }
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ addToLuaPath() {
     cd "$dir"
     for pattern in @luapathsearchpaths@;
     do
-        addToLuaSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter LUA_PATH "$PWD/$pattern"
+        addToLuaSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter NIX_LUA_PATH "$PWD/$pattern"
     done
 
     # LUA_CPATH
     for pattern in @luacpathsearchpaths@;
     do
-        addToLuaSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter LUA_CPATH "$PWD/$pattern"
+        addToLuaSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter NIX_LUA_CPATH "$PWD/$pattern"
     done
     cd - >/dev/null
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap-lua.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap-lua.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f00e0d5ac336
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap-lua.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ lib
+, lua
+, makeSetupHook
+, makeWrapper
+}:
+
+with lib;
+
+# defined in trivial-builders.nix
+# imported as wrapLua in lua-packages.nix and passed to build-lua-derivation to be used as buildInput
+makeSetupHook {
+      deps = makeWrapper;
+      substitutions.executable = lua.interpreter;
+      substitutions.lua = lua;
+      substitutions.LuaPathSearchPaths = lib.escapeShellArgs lua.LuaPathSearchPaths;
+      substitutions.LuaCPathSearchPaths = lib.escapeShellArgs lua.LuaPathSearchPaths;
+
+} ./wrap.sh
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..545a0ae271c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+# Inspired by python/wrapper.nix
+# Wrapper around wrapLuaProgramsIn, below. The $luaPath
+# variable is passed in from the buildLuarocksPackage function.
+set -e
+
+wrapLuaPrograms() {
+    wrapLuaProgramsIn "$out/bin" "$out $luaPath"
+}
+
+# Builds environment variables like LUA_PATH and PATH walking through closure
+# of dependencies.
+buildLuaPath() {
+    local luaPath="$1"
+    local path
+
+    # Create an empty table of paths (see doc on loadFromPropagatedInputs
+    # for how this is used). Build up the program_PATH and program_LUA_PATH
+    # variables.
+    declare -A luaPathsSeen=()
+    program_PATH=
+    luaPathsSeen["@lua@"]=1
+    addToSearchPath program_PATH @lua@/bin
+    for path in $luaPath; do
+        addToLuaPath "$path"
+    done
+}
+
+
+# with an executable shell script which will set some environment variables
+# and then call into the original binary (which has been given a .wrapped suffix).
+# luaPath is a list of directories
+wrapLuaProgramsIn() {
+    local dir="$1"
+    local luaPath="$2"
+    local f
+
+    buildLuaPath "$luaPath"
+
+    if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then
+        nix_debug "$dir not a directory"
+        return
+    fi
+
+    nix_debug "wrapping programs in [$dir]"
+
+    # Find all regular files in the output directory that are executable.
+    find "$dir" -type f -perm -0100 -print0 | while read -d "" f; do
+        # Rewrite "#! .../env lua" to "#! /nix/store/.../lua".
+        # Strip suffix, like "3" or "2.7m" -- we don't have any choice on which
+        # Lua to use besides one with this hook anyway.
+        if head -n1 "$f" | grep -q '#!.*/env.*\(lua\)'; then
+            sed -i "$f" -e "1 s^.*/env[ ]*\(lua\)[^ ]*^#! @executable@^"
+        fi
+
+        # wrapProgram creates the executable shell script described
+        # above. The script will set LUA_(C)PATH and PATH variables!
+        # (see pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-wrapper.sh)
+        local -a wrap_args=("$f"
+            --prefix PATH ':' "$program_PATH"
+            --prefix LUA_PATH ';' "$NIX_LUA_PATH"
+            --prefix LUA_CPATH ';' "$NIX_LUA_CPATH"
+        )
+
+        # Add any additional arguments provided by makeWrapperArgs
+        # argument to buildLuaPackage.
+        # makeWrapperArgs
+        local -a user_args="($makeWrapperArgs)"
+        local -a wrapProgramArgs=("${wrap_args[@]}" "${user_args[@]}")
+
+        # see setup-hooks/make-wrapper.sh
+        wrapProgram "${wrapProgramArgs[@]}"
+
+    done
+}
+
+# Adds the lib and bin directories to the LUA_PATH and PATH variables,
+# respectively. Recurses on any paths declared in
+# `propagated-native-build-inputs`, while avoiding duplicating paths by
+# flagging the directories it has visited in `luaPathsSeen`.
+loadFromPropagatedInputs() {
+    local dir="$1"
+    # Stop if we've already visited here.
+    if [ -n "${luaPathsSeen[$dir]}" ]; then
+        return;
+    fi
+    luaPathsSeen[$dir]=1
+
+    addToLuaPath "$dir"
+    addToSearchPath program_PATH $dir/bin
+
+    # Inspect the propagated inputs (if they exist) and recur on them.
+    local prop="$dir/nix-support/propagated-native-build-inputs"
+    if [ -e "$prop" ]; then
+        local new_path
+        for new_path in $(cat $prop); do
+            loadFromPropagatedInputs "$new_path"
+        done
+    fi
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrapper.nix
index 9abbd77d575e..7f584c0f0aff 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/wrapper.nix
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ let
               rm -f "$out/bin/$prg"
               if [ -x "$prg" ]; then
                 nix_debug "Making wrapper $prg"
-                makeWrapper "$path/bin/$prg" "$out/bin/$prg" --suffix LUA_PATH ';' "$LUA_PATH"   --suffix LUA_CPATH ';' "$LUA_CPATH" ${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " makeWrapperArgs}
+                makeWrapper "$path/bin/$prg" "$out/bin/$prg" --suffix LUA_PATH ';' "$NIX_LUA_PATH"   --suffix LUA_CPATH ';' "$NIX_LUA_CPATH" ${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " makeWrapperArgs}
               fi
             fi
           done
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/default.nix
index c20d4d02c65f..372d609792c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/default.nix
@@ -6,12 +6,25 @@
 
 let
 
-  inherit (lib) extends makeExtensible;
+  inherit (lib) extends;
 
   initialPackages = (pkgs.callPackage ../../top-level/lua-packages.nix {
     inherit lua;
   });
 
-  extensible-self = makeExtensible initialPackages;
+  overridenPackages = import ./overrides.nix { inherit pkgs; };
+
+  generatedPackages = if (builtins.pathExists ./generated-packages.nix) then
+        pkgs.callPackage ./generated-packages.nix { } else (self: super: {});
+
+  extensible-self = lib.makeExtensible
+    (extends overrides
+        (extends overridenPackages
+          (extends generatedPackages
+              initialPackages
+              )
+          )
+    )
+          ;
 in
   extensible-self
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..353eaa6e9601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,482 @@
+
+/* pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix is an auto-generated file -- DO NOT EDIT!
+Regenerate it with:
+nixpkgs$ maintainers/scripts/update-luarocks-packages pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+
+These packages are manually refined in lua-overrides.nix
+*/
+{ self, lua, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchgit, pkgs, ... } @ args:
+self: super:
+with self;
+{
+
+ansicolors = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "ansicolors";
+  version = "1.0.2-3";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/ansicolors-1.0.2-3.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "1mhmr090y5394x1j8p44ws17sdwixn5a0r4i052bkfgk3982cqfz";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/kikito/ansicolors.lua";
+    description="Library for color Manipulation.";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+argparse = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "argparse";
+  version = "0.6.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/argparse-0.6.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "10ic5wppyghd1lmgwgl0lb40pv8z9fi9i87080axxg8wsr19y0p4";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1") || ( luaAtLeast "5.4");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mpeterv/argparse";
+    description="A feature-rich command-line argument parser";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
+dkjson = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "dkjson";
+  version = "2.5-2";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/dkjson-2.5-2.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "1qy9bzqnb9pf9d48hik4iq8h68aw3270kmax7mmpvvpw7kkyp483";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1") || ( luaAtLeast "5.4");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://dkolf.de/src/dkjson-lua.fsl/";
+    description="David Kolf's JSON module for Lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+lrexlib-gnu = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lrexlib-gnu";
+  version = "2.9.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/lrexlib-gnu-2.9.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "036rda4rji1pbnbxk1nzjy5zmigdsiacqbzrbvciwq3lrxa2j5s2";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/rrthomas/lrexlib";
+    description="Regular expression library binding (GNU flavour).";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+lrexlib-posix = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lrexlib-posix";
+  version = "2.9.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/lrexlib-posix-2.9.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0ifpybf4m94g1nk70l0f5m45gph0rbp5wrxrl1hnw8ibv3mc1b1r";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/rrthomas/lrexlib";
+    description="Regular expression library binding (POSIX flavour).";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+ltermbox = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "ltermbox";
+  version = "0.2-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/ltermbox-0.2-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "08jqlmmskbi1ml1i34dlmg6hxcs60nlm32dahpxhcrgjnfihmyn8";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://code.google.com/p/termbox";
+    description="A termbox library package";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "New BSD License";
+    };
+  };
+};
+lua-cmsgpack = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lua-cmsgpack";
+  version = "0.4.0-0";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/lua-cmsgpack-0.4.0-0.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "10cvr6knx3qvjcw1q9v05f2qy607mai7lbq321nx682aa0n1fzin";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchgit ( removeAttrs (builtins.fromJSON ''{
+  "url": "git://github.com/antirez/lua-cmsgpack.git",
+  "rev": "57b1f90cf6cec46450e87289ed5a676165d31071",
+  "date": "2018-06-14T11:56:56+02:00",
+  "sha256": "0yiwl4p1zh9qid3ksc4n9fv5bwaa9vjb0vgwnkars204xmxdj8fj",
+  "fetchSubmodules": true
+}
+ '') ["date"]) ;
+   
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://github.com/antirez/lua-cmsgpack";
+    description="MessagePack C implementation and bindings for Lua 5.1/5.2/5.3";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "Two-clause BSD";
+    };
+  };
+};
+lua_cliargs = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lua_cliargs";
+  version = "3.0-2";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/lua_cliargs-3.0-2.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0qqdnw00r16xbyqn4w1xwwpg9i9ppc3c1dcypazjvdxaj899hy9w";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/amireh/lua_cliargs";
+    description="A command-line argument parser.";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+lua-term = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lua-term";
+  version = "0.7-1";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/lua-term-0.7-1.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "0r9g5jw7pqr1dyj6w58dqlr7y7l0jp077n8nnji4phf10biyrvg2";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term/archive/0.07.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "0c3zc0cl3a5pbdn056vnlan16g0wimv0p9bq52h7w507f72x18f1";
+   };
+   
+  
+  
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term";
+    description="Terminal functions for Lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+luaffi = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luaffi";
+  version = "scm-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = http://luarocks.org/dev/luaffi-scm-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0dia66w8sgzw26bwy36gzyb2hyv7kh9n95lh5dl0158rqa6fsf26";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/facebook/luaffifb";
+    description="FFI library for calling C functions from lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "BSD";
+    };
+  };
+};
+luuid = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luuid";
+  version = "20120509-2";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/luuid-20120509-2.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "08q54x0m51w89np3n117h2a153wsgv3qayabd8cz6i55qm544hkg";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.2") || ( luaAtLeast "5.4");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#luuid";
+    description="A library for UUID generation";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "Public domain";
+    };
+  };
+};
+penlight = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "penlight";
+  version = "1.5.4-1";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/penlight-1.5.4-1.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "07mhsk9kmdxg4i2w4mrnnd2zs34bgggi9gigfplakxin96sa6c0p";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = http://stevedonovan.github.io/files/penlight-1.5.4.zip;
+      sha256 = "138f921p6kdqkmf4pz115phhj0jsqf28g33avws80d2vq2ixqm8q";
+   };
+   
+  
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [luafilesystem  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight";
+    description="Lua utility libraries loosely based on the Python standard libraries";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+say = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "say";
+  version = "1.3-1";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/say-1.3-1.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "0bknglb0qwd6r703wp3hcb6z2xxd14kq4md3sg9al3b28fzxbhdv";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/say/archive/v1.3-1.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "1jh76mxq9dcmv7kps2spwcc6895jmj2sf04i4y9idaxlicvwvs13";
+   };
+   
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/busted/";
+    description="Lua String Hashing/Indexing Library";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+luv = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luv";
+  version = "1.22.0-1";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/luv-1.22.0-1.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "0yxjy9wj4aqbv1my8fkciy2xar5si6bcsszipgyls24rl6lnmga3";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://github.com/luvit/luv/releases/download/1.22.0-1/luv-1.22.0-1.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "1xvz4a0r6kd1xqxwm55g9n6imprxb79600x7dhyillrz7p5nm217";
+   };
+   
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="cmake";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/luvit/luv";
+    description="Bare libuv bindings for lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "Apache 2.0";
+    };
+  };
+};
+luasystem = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luasystem";
+  version = "0.2.1-0";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/luasystem-0.2.1-0.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "091xmp8cijgj0yzfsjrn7vljwznjnjn278ay7z9pjwpwiva0diyi";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/luasystem/";
+    description="Platform independent system calls for Lua.";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+mediator_lua = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "mediator_lua";
+  version = "1.1.2-0";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto/mediator_lua-1.1.2-0.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "18j49vvs94yfk4fw0xsq4v3j4difr6c99gfba0kxairmcqamd1if";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/mediator_lua/";
+    description="Event handling through channels";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+mpack = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "mpack";
+  version = "1.0.7-0";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = http://luarocks.org/manifests/teto/mpack-1.0.7-0.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0nq4ixaminkc7fwfpivysyv0al3j5dffsvgdrnwnqdg3w7jgfbw7";
+   };
+  
+  
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack-lua/releases/download/1.0.7/libmpack-lua-1.0.7.tar.gz";
+    description="Lua binding to libmpack";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
+nvim-client = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "nvim-client";
+  version = "0.1.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/nvim-client-0.1.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "1p57mrvm0ny3yi5cydr3z9qwzyg124rjp5w7vdflf2i23z39mkma";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua mpack luv coxpcall  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/neovim/lua-client/archive/0.1.0-1.tar.gz";
+    description="Lua client to Nvim";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "Apache";
+    };
+  };
+};
+busted = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "busted";
+  version = "2.0.rc13-0";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/busted-2.0.rc13-0.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "0hrvhg1324q5ra6cpjh1y3by6lrzs0ljah4jl48l8xlgw1z9z1q5";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/busted/archive/v2.0.rc13-0.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "0m72bldn1r6j94ahcfmpaq1mmysrshf9qi9fjas7hpal0jp8ivvl";
+   };
+   
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua lua_cliargs luafilesystem luasystem dkjson say luassert lua-term penlight mediator_lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/busted/";
+    description="Elegant Lua unit testing.";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+luassert = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luassert";
+  version = "1.7.11-0";
+
+  knownRockspec = ( fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/luassert-1.7.11-0.rockspec;
+      sha256 = "12zgybcv8acjzvjdbxd1764s1vxbksxdv9fkvsymcsdmppxkbd0s";
+   }).outPath;
+
+   src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/luassert/archive/v1.7.11.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "1vwq3wqj9cjyz9lnf1n38yhpcglr2h40v3n9096i8vcpmyvdb3ka";
+   };
+   
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua say  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/busted/";
+    description="Lua Assertions Extension";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+    };
+  };
+};
+coxpcall = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "coxpcall";
+  version = "1.17.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/manifests/hisham/coxpcall-1.17.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0n1jmda4g7x06458596bamhzhcsly6x0p31yp6q3jz4j11zv1zhi";
+   };
+  
+  
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://keplerproject.github.io/coxpcall";
+    description="Coroutine safe xpcall and pcall";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
+
+}
+/* GENERATED */
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..20a24681b6ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ pkgs,  ... }@args:
+self: super:
+with super;
+{
+  ##########################################3
+  #### manual fixes for generated packages
+  ##########################################3
+
+  ltermbox = super.ltermbox.override( {
+    disabled = !isLua51 || isLuaJIT;
+  });
+
+  lua-cmsgpack = super.lua-cmsgpack.override({
+    # TODO this should work with luajit once we fix luajit headers ?
+    disabled = (!isLua51) || isLuaJIT;
+  });
+
+  lrexlib-posix = super.lrexlib-posix.override({
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.glibc.dev ];
+  });
+  lrexlib-gnu = super.lrexlib-gnu.override({
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.gnulib ];
+  });
+  luv = super.luv.overrideAttrs(oa: {
+    propagatedBuildInputs = oa.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ pkgs.libuv ];
+  });
+
+  busted = super.busted.overrideAttrs(oa: {
+    postInstall = ''
+      install -D completions/zsh/_busted $out/share/zsh/site-functions/_busted
+    '';
+  });
+ }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
index 3728caf193ae..a918cb0c6475 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ luarocks.overrideAttrs(old: {
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "teto";
     repo = "luarocks";
-    rev = "d669e8e118e6ca8bff05f32dbc9e5589e6ac45d2";
-    sha256 = "1lay3905a5sx2a4y68lbys0913qs210hcj9kn2lbqinw86c1vyc3";
+    rev = "f9dc7892214bff6bce822d94aca3331048e61df0";
+    sha256 = "117qqbiv87p2qw0zwapl7b0p4wgnn9f8k0qpppkj3653a1bwli05";
   };
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 50dd4d1fcd9a..11e05b504b43 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ let
     else if stdenv.isSunOS then "solaris"
     else throw "unsupported platform";
 
+  buildLuaApplication = args: buildLuarocksPackage ({namePrefix="";} // args );
+
+  buildLuarocksPackage = with pkgs.lib; makeOverridable( callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5/build-lua-package.nix {
+    inherit toLuaModule;
+    inherit lua writeText;
+  });
 in
 with self; {
 
@@ -79,9 +85,15 @@ with self; {
 
 
   inherit toLuaModule lua-setup-hook;
+  inherit buildLuarocksPackage buildLuaApplication;
   inherit requiredLuaModules luaOlder luaAtLeast
     isLua51 isLua52 isLuaJIT lua callPackage;
 
+  # wraps programs in $out/bin with valid LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH
+  wrapLua = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap-lua.nix {
+    inherit lua; inherit (pkgs) makeSetupHook makeWrapper;
+  };
+
   luarocks = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/luarocks {
     inherit lua;
   };