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https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/fsummx/how_to_list_all_installed_packages_on_nixos/ implies several ways to get system level info, and not just user level

Hrm... Looking at that, reading a bit, and installing nix on my mac. I see what you mean about it not really making sense. At some level, we can make...

> > I suspect the depth of info in those json files isn't needed, I'd start with some filesystem iteration. ls looks like it's about 65% of the way there.......

Seems like a reasonable thing to add along side `kolide_macos_software_update`

> Looks good, like the use of the noop exec func for testing! I have not tested this due to lack of linux + crowdstrike. Me neither. I'm hoping @FritzX6...

I think this will be closed by https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/7690

I have some partially implemented code using functional parameters and an enum. It's pretty clean, but https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/320. I'll look back and put up some kind of PR for it all....

Answering [this comment](https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/770#issuecomment-1278934126) > We have two approaches forward that I can see: > > 1. Disable autoupdates on NixOS. > 2. Support autoupdates on NixOS. > > To be...

Is there somewhere I can read about the writable path stuff? Assuming it's not no-exec, it wouldn't be hard to have launcher run the updates from it

Oh. That should be tractable then.