Standalone home-manager breaks on unpinned fetchTarball
Standalone home-manager with an unpinned fetchTarball fails to evaluate with a version mismatch and a long stack trace.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
6 public reports · first reported 5 October 2026 · last reported 7 October 2026
What's going wrong
Users of home-manager in standalone mode on NixOS sometimes hit an evaluation error when they point their configuration at an unpinned fetchTarball download.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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