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Set a kept profile with nix build --profile #162

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions lib-overlays/integrations/default.nix
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# `activationPackage` holds `activate`, which checks for drift
# against the nearest configuration above with an activation
# (`driftCheckOf`, when `warn`), and points the profile at
# `package` with `nix-env --profile`, which also makes the
# `package` with `nix build --profile`, which also makes the
# profile a garbage-collector root. When the profile already
# points at `package`, it changes nothing, so activating the same
# generation again adds no generation to the profile.
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profile="${path}"
${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -p "$(${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/dirname "$profile")"
if [ "$(${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/readlink -f "$profile" 2>/dev/null || true)" != '${package}' ]; then
${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix-env --profile "$profile" --set '${package}'
${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command build --no-link --profile "$profile" '${package}'
fi
'';
};
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