| 4 May 2024 |
 @mewp:nurupo.pl | I don't use nix develop, so I'm not sure, but direnv with use flake definitely doesn't do that | 19:25:44 |
 tomberek | Do you have automatic GC turned on to run nightly? If so, a feature that might help you is "nix develop --profile ./tools". It makes a symlink to protect that stuff from GC. You can even enter that profile directly instead of the flake-defined one with "nix develop ./tools". | 20:11:57 |
 @abmantis:abcosta.com | ohhh, I do have GC running! | 20:23:23 |
| @abmantis:abcosta.com | I'll try that out! thanks a lot | 20:23:32 |
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 Bryan | If you use nix-direnv (or flakeenv) and the flake itself hasn't changed, the environment should be cached and a gcroot added for it so that gc doesn't clean it up :) | 19:16:53 |
| @abmantis:abcosta.com | tomberek: using --profile did not make it :( | 21:16:12 |
| @abmantis:abcosta.com | the command I'm using is:
nix develop --profile ./nix-profile /home/acosta/dev/thirdparty/nix-environments#home-assistant | 21:16:37 |
| @abmantis:abcosta.com | In reply to @bryan.bennett:matrix.org
If you use nix-direnv (or flakeenv) and the flake itself hasn't changed, the environment should be cached and a gcroot added for it so that gc doesn't clean it up :) I think in this case using flakeenv would not work since the flake is in the nix-environments repo, not in the project repo | 21:17:12 |
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| mfed3 | 
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| mfed3 | Hey everyone, been using nixos for about 2 years now, but finally doing some tests to migrate to flakes with my configuration of 2 hosts. Was following some basics on the nixos-wiki and right off the bat errors.
My steps were:
Enabled flakes and nix-command on the old style configuration
Refactored my configs a bit to have a modules and hosts folder at the top level
Ran nix flake init
Modified the file to look like this:
| 01:48:38 |
| mfed3 | Ran sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake . | 01:49:02 |
| mfed3 | [mfed3@fed-gc:~/git/nixos-config]$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .
[sudo] password for mfed3:
error:
… while calling the 'seq' builtin
at /nix/store/3pif36ks3f56py4wb1dkq6sh0nkf3ygj-source/lib/modules.nix:322:18:
321| options = checked options;
322| config = checked (removeAttrs config [ "_module" ]);
| ^
323| _module = checked (config._module);
… while evaluating a branch condition
at /nix/store/3pif36ks3f56py4wb1dkq6sh0nkf3ygj-source/lib/modules.nix:261:9:
260| checkUnmatched =
261| if config._module.check && config._module.freeformType == null && merged.unmatchedDefns != [] then
| ^
262| let
(stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)
error: getting status of '/nix/store/b0x9sbi7iqgkw5m01ccak1w7vl69fn8c-source/hosts/modules': No such file or directory
[mfed3@fed-gc:~/git/nixos-config]$
| 01:50:36 |
| mfed3 | The errors don't even point to anything in my files, I don't understand what it's trying to tell me | 01:51:18 |
| mfed3 | Maybe someone knows this common error means something specific that I forgot to do ? Can't even find the error searching for it | 01:53:06 |
| Charles | When using flakes and git, nix does not know files exist unless they are checked into git. Try running git add -AN and then trying again | 01:55:46 |
| Charles | * When using flakes and git, nix does not know files exist unless they are checked in or staged in git. Try running
`git add -AN` and then trying again | 01:56:42 |
| mfed3 | So my original config was a git repo but this one is not, I didn't realize it doesn't work at all without it being a git repo | 01:58:30 |
| mfed3 | Ok so can I just git init from that folder or do I need to delete the flake.nix and lock file and redo nix flake init? | 01:59:22 |
| Charles | If it's not a git repo then it should work | 02:00:04 |
