Is there a way to 'force' a package rebuild?

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I’m aware of the --rebuild flag using nix… Unfortunately I’m using nix-darwin and this doesn’t seem to be available? Is there a way to do something similar using nix-darwin? I’m trying to get isync to recompile with the xoauth override enabled…

Thank you in advance!

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were you able to figure it out? if you did it would be helpful to leave a comment here and mark it as a solution.

edit: user seems to be inactive. someone else can answer maybe

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--rebuild doesn’t do what OP seemed to think it does. It’s an argument to nix build that says to try to rebuild the exact same thing that has already been built and check if the results are bit-for-bit identical. It does not rebuild a package with new build flags or settings. To do that, you override the package to change how it’s configured, and that results in an entirely different package that doesn’t need --rebuild to be built.

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