<NemesisD>
i have home manager set up on a debian and on a macos machine. for some reason even with a fresh home-manager install, home-manager news on the mac stops at 2020-09-01 and thus i can't install any newer stuff than that. anyone have any ideas?
<SumnerEvans[m]>
maybe you installed at a specific state version?
<SumnerEvans[m]>
do you have the state version set anywhere in your config?
<NemesisD>
im not sure. which config file should i look in?
<SumnerEvans[m]>
~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix
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<NemesisD>
all it has in there is an imports with a reference to a nix file where i set up all my home-manager stuff. i can't see anything in there that would freeze it at a certain state
<NemesisD>
could it be that the home-manager derivation is somehow cached in my nix store at that date?
<NemesisD>
indeed if i dereference ~/.nix-profile/bin/home-manager i get /nix/store/p7bm7apxq0h1cqv8mm2sirnj2c46n339-home-manager-2020-09-06/bin/home-manager
<petrichor>
have you done `nix-channel --update` again before doing `home-manager switch`?
<NemesisD>
yeah, i do that frequently but just started noticing that i hadn't got home-manager news in a while and a new program i started depending on would not install
<SumnerEvans[m]>
what channel are you using system-wide? I wonder if that has something to do with it?
<NemesisD>
btw i'm trying to see what is referencing this old home-manager store path. i can't nix-store --delete it because it's still alive. is there a way i can see what is keeping it alive?
<SumnerEvans[m]>
Have you done a `sudo nix-channel --update`?
<NemesisD>
yeah
<rycee>
NemesisD: Is home-manager listed when you run `nix-env -q`?
<NemesisD>
yep! home-manager-2020-09-06 in fact
<rycee>
Do you also have a `home-manager-path` entry?
<NemesisD>
so that probably has something to do with this issue since it's such an old version
<NemesisD>
rycee: no but that might be because i'm currently in a state where i'm trying to reinstall home-manager. i just ran home-manager uninstall
<rycee>
Yes, you'll want to run `nix-env -e home-manager-2020-09-06`.
<rycee>
Then redo the install with `nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install` like you did above.
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<NemesisD>
rycee: very strange, now the home-manager executable is not in the path
<NemesisD>
it doesn't seem to be in ~/.nix-profile/bin as i'd expect
<NemesisD>
oh i don't. how do i apply that without home-manager though, haha
<rycee>
NemesisD: Run the install command again.
<NemesisD>
that did it!
<NemesisD>
maybe what happened is that i hit this issue some time ago and imperatively installed home-manager. is there any reason to ever not have programs.home-manager.enable = true?
<madonius[m]>
o/
<madonius[m]>
is there a way to change the default entry file?
<madonius[m]>
to have it something different from home.nix
<rycee>
NemesisD: Not really. A long time ago the installation method was different and if you still use that kind of install then you don't want to enable `programs.home-manager.enable`. I think it may be worth to simply remove this possibility at some point so that HM always installs itself.
<rycee>
/madonius: Either `home-manager -f <path to file>` or set an environment variable `HOME_MANAGER_CONFIG=<path to file>`.
<NemesisD>
thanks for getting me sorted out everyone!
<madonius[m]>
I think the latter works best
<madonius[m]>
thank you
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<figgyc>
I'm trying to install two bitmap font packages, tamzen and siji, and I can't do both at once, I get: collision between `/nix/store/snip-siji-2016-05-13/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir' and `/nix/store/snip-tamzen-font-1.11.5/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir`. Right now I just have both in home.packages, is there a better way?
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