Trouble deciding on package to give priority

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Hi there

would someone help me make sense of this error from home-manager switch :

building '/nix/store/w21rwb0kkqfyxxvip2z57hz6v3nsdy72-user-environment.drv'...
error: packages '/nix/store/g374cv5l5rzm2bm3fhr2007kglgs5sbg-home-manager-path/bin/direnv' and '/nix/store/9lmv89njlnakm9qkb6bd9fc0k7i239nj-direnv-2.30.3/bin/direnv' have the same priority 5; use 'nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER INSTALLED_PKGNAME' to change the priority of one of the conflicting packages (0 being the highest priority)
error: builder for '/nix/store/w21rwb0kkqfyxxvip2z57hz6v3nsdy72-user-environment.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 1 log lines:
       > error: packages '/nix/store/g374cv5l5rzm2bm3fhr2007kglgs5sbg-home-manager-path/bin/direnv' and '/nix/store/9lmv89njlnakm9qkb6bd9fc0k7i239nj-direnv-2.30.3/bin/direnv' have the same priority 5; use 'nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER INSTALLED_PKGNAME' to change the priority of one of the conflicting packages (0 being the highest priority)
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/w21rwb0kkqfyxxvip2z57hz6v3nsdy72-user-environment.drv'.

I have tried:

nix-env --set-flag priority 5 direnv-2.30.3

and

nix-env --set-flag priority 0 home-manager-2021-12-25

As these seem to be the relevant installed packages from nix-env -q, but these don’t fix anything. What should I be doing to resolve this?

Thanks

2

From the error it seems as if you are trying to install direnv through home-manager, while it is already installed throgh nix-env. Remove the nix-env installed one, then re-reun HM.

3

removed, but same issue, including in new terminal fwiw.

4

So what is the output of nix-env -q, and please repeat the error from HMs switch again.

5

fwiw…

$>nix-env -q                                                                                                                                                                            
home-manager-2021-12-25
nix-2.6.0
stdenv-darwin

however, from our other discussion, I’ve tried a sudo nix-channel --update to see if it brings the root channels up to same point as my user channel, and now I have all sorts of other breakages, so I’ll work through those and see where I’m at once thats done.

much thanks

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Hey NobbZ, worked through the other resulting issues and one way or another, this problem is resolved, thanks again for your patience and help clearing this up.