| 2 Oct 2021 |
 balsoft | Thanks! | 17:31:03 |
| balsoft | (I am kind of ashamed right now because now I clearly remember fiddling with string interpolation vs. toString and figuring out the difference...) | 17:31:36 |
 tomberek | It does come up often. Especially with flakes for some reason (maybe just more people? or more interesting uses being experimented with?) | 17:31:53 |
| balsoft | Perhaps it should be documented more prominently? | 17:41:51 |
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 edrex | i'm trying unsuccessfully to upgrade my nixUnstable to get the fix for https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv/issues/113
I installed it with nix-env.
❯ nix upgrade-nix => error: directory '/home/eric/.nix-profile/bin' does not appear to be part of a Nix profile
~ ❯ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nixUnstable => error: profile '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eric/profile' is incompatible with 'nix-env'; please use 'nix profile' instead
| 21:34:01 |
| edrex | what should I be doing here? | 21:34:16 |
| edrex | nix profile list => 0 - - /nix/store/nxbibr9m3pppjydlylyysja2m1gq6774-nix-2.4pre20210802_47e96bb so nix doesn't know how it got the nix flake | 21:37:29 |
| 5 Oct 2021 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | edrex: nix-direnv was patched directly to fix this as I understand it | 08:35:25 |
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| edrex | I'm seeing it outside direnv, trying to `nix develop`. There's an issue for it but I'm not on my laptop | 16:50:33 |
| edrex | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/138157 | 17:56:48 |
| edrex | generally though, how do I update nixUnstable? none of the flakes doc sources I've found address this. | 17:59:25 |
| edrex | i've been stuck for several days | 17:59:51 |
| balsoft | Nuclear option (since it involves removing the rest of your profile)
nix shell nix- Remove the profile completely
nix profile install nix | 18:00:37 |
| edrex | so nix is installed in the profile but it's not like other packages in that it can't be managed with nix profile command | 18:08:19 |
| edrex | because it was installed with nix-env, i guess. I think i'm missing a lot of context not having worked with channels. | 18:08:50 |
| edrex | oh but the sequence you listed looks like it should get it installed as a flake-based package. | 18:10:00 |
| edrex | there's a lot of fiddly user-servicable API surface here that you have to be an expert to work with safely.. | 18:11:26 |
| edrex | i pinned nixpkgs and unpinning it didn't seem to get it back in the same state.. | 18:12:47 |
| balsoft | How did you pin nixpkgs? | 18:19:04 |
| edrex | nix registry pin flake:nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/staging-next | 18:21:54 |
| balsoft | And how did you unpin? | 18:22:05 |
| edrex | nix registry remove flake:nixpkgs
nix registry add flake:nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable
it's still labeled "user" while it was "global" before.
| 18:24:16 |
| edrex | it seems like pinning should be reversible | 18:26:36 |
