Changelog: improved nix-darwin support for Determinate!
We’re excited to announce a handful of quality-of-life improvements to Determinate:
- Determinate now ships with Nix 2.26.2.
- FlakeHub Cache is no longer added to your
nix.confsubstituters until you’re logged in, eliminating the confusingnot a binary cacheerror. - Much improved nix-darwin support!
People who use both Determinate and nix-darwin should now set
nix.enable = falsein their nix-darwin configuration. This enables Determinate to handle Nix installation and configuration rather than nix-darwin, as was the case before. Many gracious thanks to Emily on the nix-darwin team for helping us with this. We’ll have much more to say about this soon.
This release also has two bug fixes specifically targeted to enterprise users:
- Enterprise macOS users with Time Machine disabled by Mobile Device Management (MDM) can now install Determinate.
- Users installing Nix from the Determinate macOS package are now notified in more cases if MDM prevents mounting volumes.
And finally, we also shipped a number of reliability improvements for the Determinate installer:
- We can now tolerate and mount the Nix Store APFS volume if it’s unlocked but not yet mounted.
- Uninstalling Determinate now cleans up the generated
nix.conffile. - Invalid or corrupted
nix.conffiles no longer block installation or upgrades. - Creating
/etc/profiles.d/nix.shnow creates/etc/profiles.dif it doesn’t exist already. - The installation process is now far more resilient to strange behavior on XFS while unpacking the Nix tarball.
To upgrade Determinate now:
sudo determinate-nixd upgradeIf you aren’t using Determinate yet, check out our getting started guides for organizations and individuals.
Written by
Graham Christensen
Graham is a Nix and Rust developer with a passion and focus on reliability in the lower levels of the stack. He is a co-founder of Determinate Systems, alongside Eelco Dolstra, as well as its Chief Technology Officer.