The init command is essentially the old install script but integrated
into the home-manager tool. This simplifies things slightly since we
can use the existing code infrastructure.
The init command is Nix flake aware in the sense that, if we detect
that the user's Nix setup supports flakes, then we also create an
initial `flake.nix` file.
Finally, we update the installation instructions for the Nix flakes
standalone setup to use the new init command.
Zsh completion update provided by Anund <anundm@gmail.com>.
This changes the default configuration location for Home Manager
configurations from
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nixpkgs
to
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/home-manager
The old location is still supported but using it will trigger a
warning message.
Fixes#3640
Specifically, if the global per-user profiles path do not exist and we
cannot create it during the activation, then place our profile in the
Home Manager data directory. We prefer to use the global location,
though, since it makes it visible to `nix-collect-garbage`.
This is intended to improve compatibility with Nix version 2.14 and
later, which no longer creates the per-user directories.
Also, use the Home Manager data directory to manage the gcroot for the
current generation. It does not have to sit in the global per-user
gcroots directory since it should never be eligible for GC.
This flag is useful to force Nix to re-fetch cached flakes. Without it,
you cannot deploy from a non-local flake in quick succession, since the
caching causes the flake to not be re-fetched.
When building from a flake, `nix build` hides the build output by
default, with a `-L`/`--print-build-logs` option to show it. Pass this
option along from `home-manager` if the user provides it.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Depending on DHCP settings you might end up with different output from
running `hostname`. Eg, your local hostname is `mylaptop`, and your
home router is configured with a local domain of `.hoome.arpa`. In
this case:
$ hostname
mylaptop.home.arpa
$ hostname -s
mylaptop
If you then go to cafe which has its router configured with `.lan` as
its local domain. Then, if your DHCP settings accept the local domain
from the router,
$ hostname
myalaptop.lan
$ hostname -s
mylaptop
With the pre-existing behaviour, if you had a
`"me@mylaptop.home.arpa"` entry in `outputs.homeConfigurations`,
running `home-manager switch` would fail:
$ home-manager switch
error: flake 'git+file:///home/me/.config/nixpkgs' does not provide
attribute 'packages.aarch64-darwin.homeConfigurations."me".activationPackage',
'legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.homeConfigurations."me".activationPackage'
or 'homeConfigurations."me".activationPackage'
After this commit, you can put configuration in a `"me@mylaptop"`
entry in `outputs.homeConfigurations`, and everything will work on
either network.
Two misplaced quotations were introduced in `doBuild` by https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/2501, which
caused the parameter expansion of DRY_RUN to include an extraneous tab. Since the flake uri is passed
later into the command, Nix assumes the whitespace sequence as the flake uri and returns that it is not
a valid flake reference.
This PR removes the misplaced quotations in `doBuild` and also places the flake uri as the first argument for
calls to `doBuildFlake` for consistency with `doBuildAttr`. Placing the uri first in the command line also guards
against possible security issues if arbitrary uris are expanded prior to the user given uri.
Currently, the `buildNews` and `doBuildAttrs` are always called
unconditionally even if a flake configuration is specified. This cause
it to always fail prior to the actual build performed by `doBuildAttrs`
because `setConfigFIle` can not find the home-manager configuration file.
As a result, an error message specifying no configuration file is shown.
Furthermore, if a user has remnant legacy configuration, the `doSwitch` and
`doBuild` functions will effectively build the activationPackage twice, with
the legacy configuration overriding the flake configuration.
A conditional check for FLAKE_CONFIG_URI was added to mitigate this by building
the legacy configuration when no flake configuration is present. There is one
exception which is when a flake configuration exists in the default location, where
the user can not build the legacy configuration as along as the file is present.
However, the tradeoff is acceptable as it matches current behavior when FLAKe_CONFIG_URI
is set for instantiation, and an user is unlikely to simulataneously switch
between the two mechanisms.
An abstract function for building flakes `doBuildFlake` was created to match
`doBuildAttrs` for manageing options and build flags.
The --no-write-lock-file flag was removed from the --debug case as it is already
matched previously at the --recreate-lock-file case.
This allows running home-manager with --builders option passed through
to nix-build, which will then pass build execution to remote builders on
other machines.
This may be useful with relatively complex home-manager configurations
where building on a local machine is not feasible.
Implements a --flake options for build and switch, along with the usual
flake related optons (for lock-files etc).
Configurations in the flake are automatically discovered in the
following order:
1. `outputs.homeConfigurations."$flake-uri"` (the `--flake parameter`)
2. `outputs.homeConfigurations."$USERNAME@$HOSTNAME"`
3. `outputs.homeConfigurations."$USERNAME"`
Make home-manager use default configuration from
~/.config/nixpkgs/flake.nix, if it exists and nothing else is
specified.
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Berbiche <nicolas@normie.dev>
This makes Home Manager respect the NO_COLOR environment variable to
disable coloring from output generated by Home Manager.
This initiative can be found more on https://no-color.org/
The quoted `$EDITOR` causes errors when using values containing
arguments, eg. "code --wait". This is in contrast to the majority of
tools (git, etc.) that do support this usage.
Fixes#1496
This option used to make the `home-manager` command use the `nix` tool
from Nix 2. Unfortunately the `nix` tool is a bit experimental and it
is best to await its stabilization before supporting it in Home
Manager.
It can be useful to simply instantiate a Home Manager configuration
without actually building it, for example for the purpose of
pre-building it with some custom command.
PR #1099
Presently, if you pass an argument with spaces in it to `doBuildAttr`,
it will be split it into multiple arguments to `nix build` or
`nix-build`. This situation arises, for example, on systems with
spaces in `XDG_DATA_HOME`.
Specifically, the `home-manager` script errors out in trying to
address the `read-news` state file. With this change, argument
separation should be preserved properly in `doBuildAttr`.
PR #1044
This forces the `home.file` option to be completely empty when
switching to the uninstall configuration. This is necessary to guard
against files are added by default in Home Manager, such as
`$XDG_CACHE_HOME/.keep`.
This rewrite allows "long options" but unfortunately does not allow
merged options such as `-vn`.
Also improve the home-manager manual page, with this it should include
all sub-commands and arguments.
Finally, include the home-manager manual page in the generated HTML
documentation.
Robert Helgesson
Bernardo Meurer
Zhaofeng Li
Anders Kaseorg
Kamal Al Marhubi
Moises Nessim
Shamrock Lee
polykernel
Sandro Jäckel
c4605
Timur Demin
Dusk Banks
ant-arctica
Teo Ljungberg
Samuel Ainsworth
Dmitry Kalinkin
Timo Kaufmann
Chris Hodapp
oxalica