autoUpgrade in home-manager

[timokau]

Nixos offers the autoUpgrade option to automatically do the equivalent of nix-channel --update && nixos-rebuild switch regularly. Should we do the same for home-manager?

[rycee]

Sound like a good idea. Assuming the programs.home-manager.path is set to a download location then in principle it could be done using a systemd user timer. I.e. similar to how it works when Home Manager is run as a NixOS module.

I'll think about how to best set it up.

[timokau]

It sounds like you are talking about updating home-manager itself. What I meant was updating the programs managed through home-manager.

[ghost]

I'd like to see this feature added too.

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[timokau]

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I would no longer use such a feature since I prefer to pin nixpkgs which requires explicit updates anyway. Therefore I'll follow the bot's guideline and close this. It seems like some other people were interested in this at some point. I can re-open this if somebody is interested in taking over.

[spagy]

heya, i'd still be interested in seeing this feature. is the right thing to open another issue or would it be possible to reopen this?

[sumnerevans]

@spagy there was an attempt to create an autoUpgrade service in #1365. Maybe you can try and resurrect that PR?

[timokau]

I'll reopen this for now. It seems like there is still interest and this issue can be used for tracking progress if there is any. I will unsubscribe though, so please ping me if necessary.

[cyntheticfox]

I think this could be pretty useful. I use flakes, but with an updating and testing GitHub action or something like that on the flake, automatic upgrades could be really nice, especially since I use some packages that rebuild often (a.k.a. neovim-nightly).

[imincik]

services.home-manager-auto-upgrade is already implemented in modules/services/home-manager-auto-upgrade.nix .

[luxus]

it should be support flakes

[wyndon]

I agree, it should support flakes.