| 12 Nov 2025 |
 jonhermansen | It makes me wonder what the hell I did to those files so that they didn't have a known hash. | 01:58:38 |
 samasaur | we just include known hashes for the macOS-provided, upstream nix installer–provided, and determinate nix installer–provided zshrc, zprofile, bashrc, etc. | 01:58:42 |
| jonhermansen | That makes good sense, and its reasonable that it asked me if I wanted to clobber them in that case! | 01:59:31 |
| samasaur | most of them are listed here, and you can see how they are set | 02:00:19 |
| samasaur | not entirely uncommon. often global installs of things (via non-nix) will modify these files so that the tools are in PATH | 02:01:13 |
| jonhermansen | It looks like I have two backups. One which was before I installed Nix, and the other was the one that didn't match a known hash.
user@desktop:~/ > cat /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix
# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
return
fi
PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
[ -r "/etc/bashrc_$TERM_PROGRAM" ] && . "/etc/bashrc_$TERM_PROGRAM"
user@desktop:~/ > cat /etc/bashrc.bak
# Nix
if [ -e '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh' ]; then
. '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh'
fi
# End Nix
# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.
if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
return
fi
PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
[ -r "/etc/bashrc_$TERM_PROGRAM" ] && . "/etc/bashrc_$TERM_PROGRAM"
| 02:03:31 |
| samasaur | that's actually the happy path to some extent, because the main alternative (/etc/paths.d) is ignored by nix-darwin | 02:03:31 |
| samasaur | at least this way you catch it | 02:03:37 |
| samasaur | hmm. what installer did you use? | 02:04:14 |
| jonhermansen | The recommended multi-user one from nixos.org. I saved it to disk before running it too. The one from https://nixos.org/nix/install | 02:05:35 |
| samasaur | huh | 02:05:45 |
| samasaur | what's the SHA256 hash of the one with Nix in it? | 02:07:32 |
| samasaur | any chance it happens to be 6be16cf7c24a3c6f7ae535c913347a3be39508b3426f5ecd413e636e21031e66? | 02:07:48 |
| samasaur | im guessing no bc if so you should not have seen this error | 02:08:09 |
| jonhermansen | The fact that I messed with the Nix installer... makes me think it was something stupid that I did. I wasn't aware of the hash check, hence my confusion. I don't think I edited either file, or installed anything that would edit those files. So something happened to BOTH files in between the time I installed Nix and tried nix-darwin | 02:08:13 |
| jonhermansen | user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix
444c716ac2ccd9e1e3347858cb08a00d2ea38e8c12fdc5798380dc261e32e9ef /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix
user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/bashrc.bak
8b5e3466922d1ae34bc145e21c7e53e7329a7a7b58b148b436bd954d5e651ac3 /etc/bashrc.bak
user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/bashrc
fd20bcfedb93eef9f3890c9bd7a3516a70373bd026f829a23c174a27a4f94101 /etc/bashrc
user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix
4d1ab5704f9d167a042fecac0d056c8a79a8ebd71e032d3489536c8db9ffe3e0 /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix
user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/zshrc.bak
cf0f7b7775b4c058d6085d9e7e57d58c307ca43730f8e4d921a9ef4e530e7e16 /etc/zshrc.bak
user@desktop:~/ > sha256sum /etc/zshrc
ef9773f1f3175cc8fbddea7fa40a9f85e55ab23bf2701ab0ca747ba939a54dd2 /etc/zshrc
| 02:08:31 |
| samasaur | yeah looks like the .backup-before-nix ones are in our known files and the .bak ones are not. i am inclined to say that somehow you did cause this by messing with the installer | 02:11:21 |
| samasaur | i mean it seems like it's just reordering blocks of that file, which should be functionally identical even though it will not match the hash | 02:11:54 |
| samasaur | unsure how exactly that would happen though | 02:12:00 |
| jonhermansen | I really appreciate the help, thank you for taking a look. I'm glad it was just me that caused the problem 😆 | 02:15:46 |
| samasaur | no problem! glad you have a path forward! | 02:17:05 |
| jonhermansen | I'm taking your advice and will modify the darwin-store plist. I hope that the fact I have both /nix AND /nix/store is not a problem. wait4path may try to start nix-daemon too early... hmm | 02:17:58 |
| samasaur | it's wait4path /nix/store i think so hopefully it's OK | 02:18:19 |
|  Inayet changed their display name from inayet to Inayet. | 12:37:54 |
 niklaskorz | https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/ | 19:36:41 |
| niklaskorz |
Homebrew prefers LLVM’s clang over gcc on macOS.
they didn't before? wow
| 19:36:54 |
 toonn | GCC on macOS has been an alias for Clang for years, no? | 21:47:29 |
| samasaur | from the Xcode toolchain, yes | 21:50:49 |
| samasaur | I guess that's referring to what happens when you have GCC and clang installed via homebrew and you install something that has to build from source? | 21:51:43 |
 Randy Eckenrode | https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20696 | 22:06:33 |
