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| author | Dave Nicponski <dave.nicponski@gmail.com> | 2022-08-31 17:25:26 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-08-31 17:25:26 -0400 |
| commit | a2b7baa42f9e5af5648d1b838aff72f1ad03974c (patch) | |
| tree | 364c0df24a0f02f5c8963b3eea80bbd8b28a9b26 /scripts | |
| parent | ddb82ffda993d237d62d59578f7808a9d98c77fe (diff) | |
Set `HOME` var to `root`'s home when running `nix-store` as `root`
A [recent-ish change](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6676) logs a warning when a potentially counterintuitive situation happens.
This now causes the multi-user installer to [emit a warning](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/189043) when it's doing
the "seed the Nix database" step via a low-level `nix-store --load-db` invocation.
`nix-store` functionality implementations don't actually use profiles or channels or homedir as far as i can tell. So why are we
hitting this code at all?
Well, the current command approach for functionality here builds a [fat `nix` binary](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/nix/local.mk#L23-L26) which has _all_ the functionality of
previous individual binaries (nix-env, nix-store, etc) bundled in, then [uses the invocation name](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/nix/main.cc#L274-L277) to select the
set of commands to expose. `nix` itself has this behavior, even when just trying to parse the (sub)command and arguments:
```
dave @ davembp2
$ nix
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.
dave @ davembp2
$ sudo nix
warning: $HOME ('/Users/dave') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.
dave @ davembp2
$ HOME=~root sudo nix
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.
```
This behavior can also be seen pretty easily with an arbitrary `nix-store` invocation:
```
dave @ davembp2
$ nix-store --realize
dave @ davembp2
$ sudo nix-store --realize # what installer is doing now
warning: $HOME ('/Users/dave') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file
dave @ davembp2
$ sudo HOME=~root nix-store --realize # what this PR effectively does
dave @ davembp2
$
```
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-multi-user.sh | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-multi-user.sh b/scripts/install-multi-user.sh index 01dbf0c0e..105b84af6 100644 --- a/scripts/install-multi-user.sh +++ b/scripts/install-multi-user.sh @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ EOF fi _sudo "to load data for the first time in to the Nix Database" \ - "$NIX_INSTALLED_NIX/bin/nix-store" --load-db < ./.reginfo + HOME="$ROOT_HOME" "$NIX_INSTALLED_NIX/bin/nix-store" --load-db < ./.reginfo echo " Just finished getting the nix database ready." ) |