…I’m not at all sure what I’ve done, but I’m somehow seeing duplicate results whenever I run nix search. For each result, I see it under both nixpkgs. and nixos.:
$ nix search -u podman
* nixos.podman (podman)
A program for managing pods, containers and container images
* nixpkgs.podman (podman)
A program for managing pods, containers and container images
I believe I only have the nixos channel set up:
$ nix-channel --list
$ sudo -i nix-channel --list
nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable
…where else might nix search be looking?
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nix search uses NIX_PATH to determine where to find packages.
$ nix search -u podman
* nixos.podman (podman)
A program for managing pods, containers and container images
* nixpkgs.podman (podman)
A program for managing pods, containers and container images
$ NIX_PATH= nix search -u podman
error: no results for the given search term(s)!
$ echo $NIX_PATH
/home/jon/.nix-defexpr/channels:nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels
$ NIX_PATH=/home/jon/.nix-defexpr/channels:nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos nix search -u podman
* nixpkgs.podman (podman)
A program for managing pods, containers and container images
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@jonringer I’m also experiencing the same issue but this solution doesn’t work for me.
I think it’s because I’m using nixpkgs as my user’s channel and nixos-unstable named nixos as root’s channel. This is the layout of the directories in question:
$ tree ~/.nix-defexpr /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/
/home/doron/.nix-defexpr
├── channels -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/doron/channels
└── channels_root -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user
├── doron
│ ├── channels -> channels-38-link
│ ├── channels-38-link -> /nix/store/d3887hqg1lr5vanvdx13wi84xd8cxkh9-user-environment
│ ├── profile -> profile-587-link
│ ├── profile-586-link -> /nix/store/njhda5rxgizmbl9mba5ifmd2s1fgnz5s-user-environment
│ └── profile-587-link -> /nix/store/2spzklibyw0z1wl4dkag7lzwxbkn34vm-user-environment
├── lightdm
├── nixbld1
└── root
├── channels -> channels-69-link
└── channels-69-link -> /nix/store/60vkpq8m97ncg27iwmldlir33ix44j7g-user-environment
/home/doron/.nix-defexpr/channels/
├── binary-caches -> /nix/store/n8q83dx47i6n562l9q23ppf2c92i0112-nixos-unstable-19.09pre186563.b5f5c97f7d6/binary-caches
├── manifest.nix -> /nix/store/85d2y68262anf8spigg1ms7g07cwn000-env-manifest.nix
├── nixos-unstable -> /nix/store/n8q83dx47i6n562l9q23ppf2c92i0112-nixos-unstable-19.09pre186563.b5f5c97f7d6/nixos-unstable
└── nixpkgs -> /nix/store/s83av4k1grhcc3zcv6520am4gjwy7841-nixpkgs-20.03pre203598.f97746ba272/nixpkgs
16 directories, 1 file
Do I have too many channels? Have I configured them right in the first place? I think I’m effectively using the unstable channel after all…
I’m not actually sure on what is good or bad channel hygiene. I mostly go off what is master/unstable and call it a day
Total newb here. I have this duplicate search results “issue”. I see results from both nixos and nixpkgs, like in the OP.
I followed the steps in 2.5.4. Installing from another Linux distribution.
I’m curious how to fix it, and also why it happened so I can learn.
I extracted the relevant commands that I ran, out of my .bash_history. I ran these before finally running the install step:
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-19.09 nixos19
nix-channel --update
nix-channel --remove nixpkgs
nix-channel --remove nixos19
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-19.09 nixpkgs
nix-channel --remove nixpkgs
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-19.09 nixos
nix-channel --remove nixos
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-19.09 nixpkgs
nix-channel --update
sudo PATH="$PATH" NIX_PATH="$NIX_PATH" `which nixos-install` --root /mnt
I was toying around to learn what it does. I omitted nix-channel --list and nix-channel --help and other commands from above.
Any idea why the duplicate search results?