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| author | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-04-27 17:28:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-04-29 01:19:21 +0000 |
| commit | aae12f5848d930abbf938f480f9851e77a234505 (patch) | |
| tree | adf9273c00b7ee108a318264bf1447b0c455fffe /doc | |
| parent | 2bd57d4d36f66de00fa4f791569056e58598e782 (diff) | |
fix `nix upgrade-nix` on new-style profiles
nix3-profile automatically migrates any profile its used on to its style
of profile -- the ones with manifest.json instead of manifest.nix. On
non-NixOS systems, Nix is conventionally installed to the profile at
/nix/var/nix/profiles/default, so if a user passed that to `--profile`
of `nix profile`, then it would break upgrade-nix from ever working
again, without recreating the profile.
This commit fixes that, and allows upgrade-nix to work on either kind of
profile.
Fixes #16.
Change-Id: I4c49b1beba93bb50e8f8a107edc451affe08c3f7
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/upgrade-nix-profile-compat.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/upgrade-nix-profile-compat.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/upgrade-nix-profile-compat.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df9879c6f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/upgrade-nix-profile-compat.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +synopsis: using `nix profile` on `/nix/var/nix/profiles/default` no longer breaks `nix upgrade-nix` +cls: 952 +--- + +On non-NixOS, Nix is conventionally installed into a `nix-env` style profile at /nix/var/nix/profiles/default. +Like any `nix-env` profile, using `nix profile` on it automatically migrates it to a `nix profile` style profile, which is incompatible with `nix-env`. +`nix upgrade-nix` previously relied solely on `nix-env` to do the upgrade, but now will work fine with either kind of profile. |