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`nix upgrade-nix` should restart the daemon for you #267

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opened 2024-05-05 22:43:00 +00:00 by jade · 5 comments

jade commented

2024-05-05 22:43:00 +00:00

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Currently it doesn't, and that requires extra steps in upgrade documents.

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jade commented

2024-05-05 22:43:43 +00:00

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Also perhaps upgrade-nix should just hit the installer. Unsure.

Also perhaps `upgrade-nix` should just hit the installer. Unsure.

pennae commented

2024-05-05 22:47:19 +00:00

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we::horrors are convinced that upgrade-nix should not exist and be an installer feature instead. it's too much of a footgun, especially on systems that had nix installed via a different package manager, not the installer

we::horrors are convinced that `upgrade-nix` should not exist and be an installer feature instead. it's too much of a footgun, especially on systems that had nix installed via a different package manager, not the installer

jade commented

2024-05-05 22:48:31 +00:00

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yeah, it feels like possible miscommunication that we unbroke it rather than replacing it with an installer feature 🙃 i am very sorry @qyriad.

qyriad commented

2024-05-05 23:28:33 +00:00

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No problem! We assumed fixing upgrade-nix was temporary/interim while the installer feature wasn't a thing yet, so we knew we were fixing a feature that was not long for this world

qyriad referenced this issue from lix-project/lix-installer

2024-05-05 23:33:58 +00:00

replace nix upgrade-nix #10

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2024-07-11 17:31:17 +00:00

Profile conflict error in nix upgrade-nix when upgrading from 2.20 #411

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Merge pull request #267 from mightyiam/patch-1

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gwenya commented

2025-12-26 11:10:44 +00:00

I just ran nix upgrade-nix and afterwards nix --version reports the new version.
I assume that this is expected and I still need to restart the daemon manually to complete the upgrade. But it would be nice if that is specifically documented (i.e. some language to the effect that the daemon restart is necessary even though it looks like it is upgraded).

I just ran `nix upgrade-nix` and afterwards `nix --version` reports the new version. I assume that this is expected and I still need to restart the daemon manually to complete the upgrade. But it would be nice if that is specifically documented (i.e. some language to the effect that the daemon restart is necessary even though it *looks* like it is upgraded).