On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 12:52 PM Pratham Patel <thefirst1322@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > An update on the efforts: > > Running nix commands like `nix run nixpkgs#hello` works. And that's all that works from what I've been able to test. Installing Nix software like `home-manager` fails. You can actually do a `nix run home-manager/master -- init --switch` and you will get a "barebones" initialisation of home-manager activated but as I will discuss later, variables related to activation don't get sourced and it is rendered useless. However, I cannot build my home-manager configuration. > > This issue stems from improper initialization of several things. What the Determinate Systems' installer and the official Nix installer do is fetch a tarball from [here](https://releases.nixos.org/?prefix=nix/), extract it in `/nix/store` and add/modify the shell rcs (for bash, fish and zsh) in `/etc` to source a few files from the nix store that contain environment variables like `NIX_PATH` which is crucial for nix to build anything more than the `hello` package. As part of your package, you can achieve similar things by dropping a script into `/etc/profile.d`. For example, conda (the formerly-primarily Python package manager) installs a conda.{csh,sh} script there that sets some variables for paths and shell functions to match. Or flatpak, that installs flatpak.sh that adds XDG_DATA_DIRS. > > As such, I'm looking into [`nix-portable`](https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable) which seems to solve this exact issue for us. Hopefully, I am able to dedicate some time and test it out by the end of next week. > > Pratham Patel -- Elliott -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
