home-manager/home-manager/install.nix
Robert Helgesson c4a9546831
Change installation instructions to use nix-channel
This avoids the uncontrollable nature of fetching the tarball as part
of the evaluation. Instead the user can decide when to update and also
perform rollbacks, if necessary.

(cherry picked from commit a37b5c9c61)
2018-12-06 00:31:54 +01:00

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Nix

{ home-manager, pkgs }:
pkgs.runCommand
"home-manager-install"
{
propagatedBuildInputs = [ home-manager ];
preferLocalBuild = true;
allowSubstitutes = false;
shellHook = ''
confFile="''${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/nixpkgs/home.nix"
if [[ ! -e $confFile ]]; then
echo
echo "Creating initial Home Manager configuration..."
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$confFile")"
cat > $confFile <<EOF
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
# Let Home Manager install and manage itself.
programs.home-manager.enable = true;
}
EOF
fi
echo
echo "Creating initial Home Manager generation..."
echo
if home-manager switch; then
cat <<EOF
All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you
can edit
$confFile
to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to
see all available options.
EOF
exit 0
else
cat <<EOF
Uh oh, the installation failed! Please create an issue at
https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/issues
if the error seems to be the fault of Home Manager.
EOF
exit 1
fi
'';
}
""