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2024-08-29 12:56:18

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This is not a bug. This is a security feature (similar to what some Linux distributions do today). However, this resulted in the problem that the Nix installer could not create a /nix folder. I don't know when /etc/synthetic.conf was introduced, but that was the way to create the Nix Store on a volume and show it as /nix via synthetics.conf. (1/2)

2024-08-28 18:41:17

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Ah, good point. To my rescue, however, I can point out that this falls right into my first attempts with Nix. Now that you mention it, I remember that there was a problem. That was the introduction of the R/O system, wasn't it? But this specific problem is due to a fundamental, legitimate change to the way macOS works. I would therefore want to consider it separately. This would also have led to problems on other platforms.

2024-08-28 16:45:09

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Apart from minor incompatibilities, I have never had any problems with macOS updates since 2002. And even with Nix (nix-darwin and home-manager) I only had the problem with /etc/zshrc and the missing Nix hook. And for this I had built a launchd job that checks at every system start whether the hook is still there and adds it again if necessary. Since then: no problems.
Oh yes: I've always taken all macOS betas with me. (1/3)