I just updated my nixpkgs input and now thenodejs-20.20.2 package (prolly used by another package and idk why) is flagged as insecure, no big deal i just gotta add it to nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages, which I do:

  nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages = [
    "nodejs-20.20.2"
    "electron-38.8.4"
  ];

Execpt that it STILL doesn’t rebuild and tells me the same error message as when I didn’t have added it to the permitted insecure packages

       error: Refusing to evaluate package 'nodejs-20.20.2' in /nix/store/1hb1glkkpl6vjjpfrwzmvjyvhcyqfxfk-source/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix:689 because it is marked as insecure

       Known issues:
        - This NodeJS release has reached its end of life. See https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/.

       You can install it anyway by allowing this package, using the
       following methods:

       a) To temporarily allow all insecure packages, you can use an environment
          variable for a single invocation of the nix tools:

            $ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1

          Note: When using `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop`, etc with a flake,
                then pass `--impure` in order to allow use of environment variables.

       b) for `nixos-rebuild` you can add ‘nodejs-20.20.2’ to
          `nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages` in the configuration.nix,
          like so:

            {
              nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages = [
                "nodejs-20.20.2"
              ];
            }

       c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
          ‘nodejs-20.20.2’ to `permittedInsecurePackages` in
          ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix, like so:

            {
              permittedInsecurePackages = [
                "nodejs-20.20.2"
              ];
            }

not sure what to do when the option to allow insecure packages does not allow insecure packages, weirdly enough tho it works just fine with

  • Laser@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    It’s a bit of a silly situation, I ran into it before when I created a flake for an unfree application. You can’t allow that unfree application in your nixpkgs system instantiation because the evaluation fails in the application flake; however, allowing that package there allows it on any system that uses the flake, even if they disallow unfree in their nixpkgs.