Nix symlink error after update from NixOS 24.05 to 24.11

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Hi folks,

I recently updated NixOS 24.05 to 24.11 which also updated nix to 2.24.12 and I started having a problem.

In 24.05 I’d execute:

nix flake update /foo/bar/my/repo

Now in 24.11, I need to use

nix flake update --flake /foo/bar/my/repo

But I get:

...
while updating the flake input 'foo_bar'
...
error: path '/some/thing' is a symlink

And that’s correct. The foo_bar input is a symlink, and I’d like to keep it that way.

At this moment my workaround is to run the following:

nix run nixpkgs/nixos-24.05#nix flake update /foo/bar/my/repo

But obviously, that is not the right thing to do…

Could you please tell me if there is another workaround?

Thank you.

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I am no NixOS expert but can’t you cd into your NixOS config. And then run nix flake update.

I usually just:

cd ~/.config/nixos
nix flake update