Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore

Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by slekker on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:40PM (#38015650)

Perhaps a stupid question but I got an early-March installation, can I just run the command in the blog post to upgrade it?

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by biggestlou on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:43PM (#38015699)

Unfortunately, you will need to uninstall Nix[1] and then re-install it using that script. But given how we've built the installer that should be pretty seamless.

1. https://github.com/determinateSystems/nix-installer#uninstal...

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by grhmc on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:46PM (#38015742)

Yeah, this is unfortunate. We've built the Determinate Nix Installer to be super reliable and safe. We've built the receipt mechanism to have very clear and safe "revert" phases. This has made it hard to architect an upgrade of the installer's work itself ... but I'll put a ticket it! :)

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by jolux on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:53PM (#38015846)

I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it gave me 0.13.1 and not 0.14. Did I do something wrong?

edit: tried again and got 0.14. Weird.

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by flexiondotorg on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:56PM (#38015905)

Sorry about that. Just checked. This is due to our phased rollouts which are currently 50/50.

We're just ramping 0.14 up to 100%. So please try again in about 10 mins

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Re:Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore by grhmc on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:09PM (#38016106)

This is just rolled out now! Sorry about that, I thought we'd hit merge on that PR before publishing :').

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