The Curse of NixOS

Re:The Curse of NixOS by kitsunesoba on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:31PM (#30063595)

Did they ever fix the need to disable SIP for nix to work on macOS? That made trying it out a nonstarter when I looked into it 2 or 3 years ago.

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Re:The Curse of NixOS by takeda on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:16AM (#30068377)

I started using Nix around 3 years ago, and I actually didn't encounter this issue. The last issue was when Catalina made root read only, there is some hacking to keep /nix in the root.

Edit: after searching about it, looks like this was the same issue with /nix in the root, and disabling SIP was one solution at the time. Currently the solution appears to be creating a separate volume and using /etc/fstab and /etc/synthetic.conf to set it up[1]. The installation script does it automatically.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-...

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Re:The Curse of NixOS by theptip on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:56PM (#30063913)

I hit similar issues a while ago, and I think they have this figured out now. The installer Just Works (tested on a MBP2015) as of a few months ago.

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