Ungoogled-chromium: nix version how to make updates stay on ungoogled-chromium

[truesilver92]

I am using the (unofficial? not in the list) nixOS version which works great, but when trying to do updates using nix-env -u it updates to the normal chromium package (I think it has to do with version number)

How do you install ungoogled-chromium using nix (or nox) in a way that makes updates using nix-env -u only grab newer versions of ungoogled-chromium?

[squalus]

Might be better to ask on #nixos IRC. I'm not sure exactly how the nix-env command works. The Nix package attribute path is ungoogled-chromium, so I would expect it to work like any other package if you've installed that.

Are you sure it's reverting to the normal chromium package? The nix store path for ungoogled-chromium is a little misleading in that it just says "chromium" instead of "ungoogled-chromium". This is something I can fix in a future revision.

[truesilver92]

From my reading sadly the attribute path is not used as part of the logic in nix for doing updates. I remember reading an issue where they were discussing adding it for doing updates, but it may be a while off. It will probably break something.

I just tested again and nix tries to replace ungoogled-chromium with base chromium. The easiest fix would be to rename the ungoogled-chromium version's package to ungoogled-chromium. Will you make that change?

[squalus]

I'm not a nix-env user, so I don't really understand the issue. Do you have a link to where you were reading about that?

[squalus]

But either way, yes I can include this in a future revision of the nix package!

[truesilver92]

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3283

[squalus]

The best thing to do right now is to fix those nixpkgs packages so that the derivation name matches the attribute name.

This is something I can do