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Dave Nicponski a2b7baa42f
Set HOME var to root's home when running nix-store as root 
A [recent-ish change](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6676) logs a warning when a potentially counterintuitive situation happens.

This now causes the multi-user installer to [emit a warning](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/189043) when it's doing
the "seed the Nix database" step via a low-level `nix-store --load-db` invocation.

`nix-store` functionality implementations don't actually use profiles or channels or homedir as far as i can tell.  So why are we 
hitting this code at all?  

Well, the current command approach for functionality here builds a [fat `nix` binary](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/nix/local.mk#L23-L26) which has _all_ the functionality of
previous individual binaries (nix-env, nix-store, etc) bundled in, then [uses the invocation name](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/nix/main.cc#L274-L277) to select the
set of commands to expose.  `nix` itself has this behavior, even when just trying to parse the (sub)command and arguments:

```
dave @ davembp2
$ nix
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.

dave @ davembp2
$ sudo nix
warning: $HOME ('/Users/dave') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.

dave @ davembp2
$ HOME=~root sudo nix
error: no subcommand specified
Try 'nix --help' for more information.
```

This behavior can also be seen pretty easily with an arbitrary `nix-store` invocation:
```
dave @ davembp2 
$ nix-store --realize

dave @ davembp2 
$ sudo nix-store --realize  # what installer is doing now
warning: $HOME ('/Users/dave') is not owned by you, falling back to the one defined in the 'passwd' file

dave @ davembp2
$ sudo HOME=~root nix-store --realize  # what this PR effectively does

dave @ davembp2
$ 
```
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contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks 2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Integrate push-docker.sh into the release script 2022-02-18 13:58:01 +01:00
misc nix-daemon.service: sync LimitNOFILE with the nixos service 2022-05-19 21:16:07 +03:00
mk Fix incremental static builds 2022-06-22 17:53:58 +02:00
perl Remove std::string alias (for real this time) 2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
scripts Set HOME var to root's home when running nix-store as root 2022-08-31 17:25:26 -04:00
src Merge pull request #6968 from fricklerhandwerk/man-no-weblinks 2022-08-29 08:46:35 +02:00
tests Fix onError 2022-08-17 11:36:58 +02:00
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.gitignore Fix gitignore 2022-08-04 14:01:27 -04:00
.version Bump version 2022-08-25 11:50:14 +02:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Don't use -load_all on darwin 2022-08-03 10:27:25 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix docker.nix: Provide boolean for whether to bundle nixpkgs 2022-08-09 23:21:27 -04:00
flake.lock curl: patch for netrc regression in Nix 2022-07-14 17:45:02 -05:00
flake.nix curl: patch for netrc regression in Nix 2022-07-14 17:45:02 -05:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Makefile.config.in Embed the sandbox shell into the statically linked 'nix' binary 2022-06-23 04:08:28 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
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shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

README.md

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.