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[Feature Request]: automatically upgrade Nix: the package manager
@mjgallag thank you for reporting! Just to clarify -- you're asking for Devbox to update the version of the nix binaries themselves?
@Lagoja correct, Devbox automatically installed Nix: the package manager v2.13.3 for me but now Nix: the package manager v2.15 is the current version so I want Devbox to also automatically manage Nix: the package manager upgrades. I assume if I take no manual upgrade action I'll eventually be out of date enough to cause trouble. Thanks!
Loving Devbox so far!
Got it, I think this is a great suggestion. We should roll Nix package manager upgrades into Devbox releases when they line up..
This seems like something you'd want to configure though. Nix is supposed to ensure reproducibility and I don't want the tool I'm using for reproducibility to change itself without asking.
Maybe this is something that could be added to devbox.json as configuration or devbox.lock, or a warning printed to the console (e.g. like yarn and other package managers).
@bbugh this also relates to https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox/issues/1371.
Both the devbox version and the nix version should be locked to ensure total reproducibility.
