Command to run comes from outside chroot

[DavidTruby]

The binary to run seems to come from the host system not the chroot, i.e. if I install a shell with nix (e.g zsh which my system doesn't have installed) and then try and run that with nix-user-chroot ~/.nix zsh, the command can't be found. Preferably I would be able to manage my shell with nix and run it this way.

[DavidTruby]

It tried naively to fix this myself (by just checking if the binary to run exists in the target nix directory, and using the one from the host if not) but I ran into lots of problems with locales and permissions. So, I probably don't know enough about this to fix it or even if it's an issue in the first place :smiley:

[Mic92]

Have you tried using the full path to the executable? i.e.: ~/.nix-profile/bin/bash

[EggBaconAndSpam]

Is this possibly related to #12? More specifically, nix-user-chroot ~/.nix zsh inherits the PATH environment from its host shell, which doesn't contain ~/.nix-profile/bin and thus also not zsh.