error: file 'REPEAT' was not found in the Nix search path #163374
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The full error for me: and that file says: I note that REPEAT shows up only once: And if I replace |
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Got similar problem after executing |
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Might be related to this piece of code NixOS/nix@e9c04c3 That is the only thing I found with "" keywords in it. |
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@bonds on |
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Don't use nix-env |
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@ppenguin I was able to get around this by adding ~/empty.nix with just
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Also worth noting that after I did this and upgraded my user profile and system, I no longer have |
Dunno...I just used |
@bonds I take it you're not on |
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That’s right, I’m on MacOS.
… On Mar 17, 2022, at 1:02 AM, ppenguin ***@***.***> wrote:
@bonds on nixos obviously all files under nix/... are read-only, so how to change the offending ?
Dunno...I just used vi and ignored the warning that the file was read-only. root can do what he wants. ;)
@bonds I take it you're not on nixos, there the nix-store itself is read-only (also for root), but the solution of @corngood works like a charm and is probably a more "idiomatic" workaround.
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As a minimal fix for this, I ran the following and after that |
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Let's reopen this until the fix hits nixpkgs master at least. |
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Wow, many thanks for your help 💯 really great community help here ❤️ 💟 😍 totally awesome 😄
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@Artturin what should I use instead? |
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@edolstra Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of NixOS/nix#6296 is that it fixes generating the So anyone who used
EDIT2: disregard above, that was quite far off from the right understanding, see #163374 (comment). |
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The fix is neither released nor in nixpkgs AFAICT. |
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The repl has used this notation already prior to this patch which is not part of any Nix release nor applied as a patch in nixpkgs. |
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Alright, I was quite wrong, but also after spending a few hours being confused it makes sense now. (click to open some ramblings)So I decided to check the most direct way I can thing of: $ nix build $(nix show-derivation $(which nix-env) | jq -r 'values[].env.src')
$ grep -n -C2 -R '<REPEAT>' result/
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-127- case tAttrs: {
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-128- if (!v.attrs->empty() && !seen.insert(v.attrs).second)
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc:129: str << "<REPEAT>";
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-130- else {
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-131- str << "{ ";
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result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-143- case tListN:
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-144- if (v.listSize() && !seen.insert(v.listElems()).second)
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc:145: str << "<REPEAT>";
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-146- else {
result/src/libexpr/eval.cc-147- str << "[ ";
After every system upgrade, I run But why is everything I did since Best guess right now is the In short, I didn't notice the original repro had two installed packages and apparently the only multi-package operation I ever did was the bulk upgrade (after the system-level After the move to $ cd $(mktemp -d)
$ ln -s . profile
$ NIX_PROFILE=$PWD/profile nix-env -iA nixos.gnumake nixos.gnupg
installing 'gnumake-4.3'
installing 'gnupg-2.3.4'
$ grep '<REPEAT>' ./profile/manifest.nix # most of the output replaced with "..." for brevity
... license = <REPEAT>; ...
... maintainers = [ ... <REPEAT> ]; ...
... platforms = <REPEAT>; ...
$ NIX_PROFILE=$PWD/profile nix-env -iA nixos.hello
installing 'hello-2.12'
error: file 'REPEAT' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
at /nix/store/a8fqrf8j3sv7fngmx0zzix22508fggrd-env-manifest.nix:1:2758: |
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I use nix on macOS. I have For a month or so now, I get this error whenever running I know from the above that I can work around it with |
Upgrading in a root shell fixed it for me. I also use the unstable channel and am on Fedora 35 however. I reinstalled Nix and rebooted twice just to fix this issue. I was pretty sure I had messed up something, and obviously I had the freshest packages on my user profile, so I don't understand what I did right to fix it. |
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@jbg what version of nix are you running? I had the same issue and was able to fix it by running a stable version of nix-env once: Problem exampleSolutionInstall stable version of nix: Install a single derivation with the stable version of nixpkgs. After that, the old version works as well. Afterwards, you can even |
The bug is only triggered when installing/upgrading multiple packages, which share some attributes (the sharing comes from evaluating So you only need the workaround once (to "repair" the profile manifest), then either:
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Describe the bug
Can not install an simple expression with
nix-env. I always get the errorerror: file 'REPEAT' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Create two files:
Dockerfile
expression.nix
And run
docker build .Expected behavior
The simple script is installed in the env :)
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