| 9 Feb 2026 |
 Ivan Mincik (imincik) | Hey, great thanks for all work on a new installer! We would like to start testing it for ngipkgsprojects . Are there any major roadblocks ? Is there anything we can do to help you to speed up first final release ? Thanks. | 08:02:57 |
|  loudgolem joined the room. | 10:14:47 |
 Mic92 | I am just slow at announcing the testing phase. I don't have any known blockers for the installer itself. I think I mainly need an release note entry here https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tree/master/doc/manual/rl-next or a discourse post. | 12:10:11 |
| 11 Feb 2026 |
 Matthew Kenigsberg | @joerg:thalheim.io have anything to discuss sync today? | 14:29:04 |
| Mic92 | Matthew Kenigsberg: Not sure. Maybe you can write a release note entry for nix, so we can include it in the next changelog announcement? | 14:32:44 |
| Mic92 | Otherwise, just test the installer on different platforms and base operating systems | 14:36:31 |
| Matthew Kenigsberg | Not completely sure if this is what you're hoping for but we wrote https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/15201 | 15:40:59 |
| Mic92 | Matthew Kenigsberg: Thanks. Only thing I noticed is that you mention that one can install the new installer over the old one. I don't think this actually worked for me. | 15:44:35 |
| Mic92 | I think we can however just link to the manual uninstall section? | 15:44:59 |
| Matthew Kenigsberg | I think it's supposed to work over an old installation. Do you know what failed? | 15:45:36 |
| Mic92 | I think it told me that there was something already installed. | 15:45:53 |
| Mic92 | this was on macOS. | 15:46:03 |
| Mic92 | I'll try on some linux container first. | 15:46:15 |
 cole-h | It will not install over a Rust-based install, correct | 15:46:16 |
| cole-h | That's why we included the caveat of "script-based" | 15:46:37 |
| Mic92 | is it designed to install over the script-based install? | 15:46:42 |
| cole-h | (Curing a script based install, or more accurately: an install without a receipt, is a major feature; if that's broken we should fix it) | 15:47:26 |
| cole-h | If you delete the receipt or move it out of the way, the installer will proceed. We just didn't want people to try to reinstall Nix to get a new version, and instead use eg nix upgrade-nix | 15:48:23 |
| Mic92 | Okay. I will see if I can find someone that used the old installer on mac, I don't want to replace my nix installation again, with this bad internet I got at the moment :) | 15:48:25 |
| Mic92 | cole-h: so we got this error: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/issues/131 | 15:52:12 |
| Mic92 | 3: The keychain lacks a password for the already existing "Nix Store" volume on disk disk3, consider removing the volume with diskutil apfs deleteVolume "Nix Store" (if you receive error -69888, you may need to run sudo launchctl bootout system/org.nixos.darwin-store and sudo launchctl bootout system/org.nixos.nix-daemon first) | 15:52:23 |
| Mic92 | So is the user supposed to run these steps? | 15:52:52 |
| cole-h | Correct. I believe we found that this happens, we are unable to read the password out of the Keychain and thus will be unable to unlock the volume on restart. Without the password we can't change the password. | 16:02:20 |
| Mic92 | okay, it worked eventually. | 16:08:51 |
| Mic92 | cole-h: we started testing some more linux distributions and found small fixes being needed for archlinux/opensuse: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-installer/releases/tag/2.33.2 | 16:13:30 |
| Mic92 | Matthew Kenigsberg: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/15201 please undraft, if you agree with our changes. Looks good from my side otherwise. | 16:22:10 |
| Matthew Kenigsberg | Added one small tweak "Thanks to Determinate Systems for all the investment they've put into the installer."
and marked ready | 17:08:44 |
| 3 Oct 2022 |
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