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| 15 Sep 2025 | ||
 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Btw here's the manifistation of this fever dream of mine: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13987 | 00:16:54 |
| 16 Sep 2025 | ||
 getchoo | i think i have a decent solution here: https://github.com/getchoo-contrib/nix/tree/getchoo/dogfood-experimental-installer it currently grabs the artifacts the 0.27.0, but it wouldn't be too hard to extend to fetch from the main branch builds (if they actually uploaded their artifacts)dogfooding even works as well! ...but i did come across an interesting problem | 04:18:02 |
| getchoo | when dogfooding is an enabled with this experimental installer option, you'll end up with an 4: Failed to execute command HOME="/root" "/nix/store/dkmylx2wyz9i6ycbmr07lpv15mph0d7y-nix-main-2.32.0pre/bin/nix-store" "--load-db"`` errori traced it back to this pretty naive snippet of code that basically just takes the first path in the store matching nix-* and runs it, with no checks for if /bin/nix-store actually exists https://github.com/NixOS/experimental-nix-installer/blob/20be610e1f29c8a127146da67ed56f879b173ac6/src/action/base/setup_default_profile.rs#L55-L70 | 04:19:47 |
| getchoo | this worked before the component split in 2.29 since there would only be one main nix store path at this point, but now it matches the nix-main store path first, which doesn't a bin dir or any of the nix binaries | 04:21:02 |
| getchoo | i figured this was something probably fixed in an update upstream and i'd need to wait on a rebase, but the code there actually remains entirely the same https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/blob/8a7bb095d93ada552d20d2f22ffd9f1668f8e394/src/action/base/setup_default_profile.rs#L56-L69 | 04:22:07 |
| getchoo | i think this might only work because the hash part of the release nix store path happens to be sorted before the other components, while it isn't in the pre-release tarball from the artifacts i'm pushing into this lol | 04:33:40 |
| getchoo | * when dogfooding is enabled with this experimental installer option, you'll end up with an 4: Failed to execute command HOME="/root" "/nix/store/dkmylx2wyz9i6ycbmr07lpv15mph0d7y-nix-main-2.32.0pre/bin/nix-store" "--load-db"`` errori traced it back to this pretty naive snippet of code that basically just takes the first path in the store matching nix-* and runs it, with no checks for if /bin/nix-store actually exists https://github.com/NixOS/experimental-nix-installer/blob/20be610e1f29c8a127146da67ed56f879b173ac6/src/action/base/setup_default_profile.rs#L55-L70 | 04:33:57 |
| getchoo | * when dogfooding is enabled with this experimental installer option, you'll end up with an 4: Failed to execute command \HOME="/root" "/nix/store/dkmylx2wyz9i6ycbmr07lpv15mph0d7y-nix-main-2.32.0pre/bin/nix-store" "--load-db"`error i traced it back to this pretty naive snippet of code that basically just takes the first path in the store matchingnix-*and runs it, with no checks for if/bin/nix-store` actually exists https://github.com/NixOS/experimental-nix-installer/blob/20be610e1f29c8a127146da67ed56f879b173ac6/src/action/base/setup_default_profile.rs#L55-L70 | 04:34:15 |
| getchoo | * when dogfooding is enabled with this experimental installer option, you'll end up with an 4: Failed to execute command \HOME="/root" "/nix/store/dkmylx2wyz9i6ycbmr07lpv15mph0d7y-nix-main-2.32.0pre/bin/nix-store" "--load-db"` error i traced it back to this pretty naive snippet of code that basically just takes the first path in the store matchingnix-*and runs it, with no checks for if/bin/nix-store` actually exists https://github.com/NixOS/experimental-nix-installer/blob/20be610e1f29c8a127146da67ed56f879b173ac6/src/action/base/setup_default_profile.rs#L55-L70 | 04:34:31 |