From e8f02cfd7448fa9289f4281726ed2485f91cd446 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: technofab <admin@technofab.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 21:01:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(image): fix default profile link + stop linking it to
 user profile

---
 image.nix | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/image.nix b/image.nix
index 839bb2b..1950ce4 100644
--- a/image.nix
+++ b/image.nix
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@
       echo "coder:100000:65536" > $out/etc/subgid
 
       ln -s ${profile} $out/nix/var/nix/profiles/default-1-link
-      ln -s $out/nix/var/nix/profiles/default-1-link $out/nix/var/nix/profiles/default
-      ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/default $out/home/coder/.nix-profile
+      ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/default-1-link $out/nix/var/nix/profiles/default
+
+      # prevents the profiles from being cleaned up by the GC
+      ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles $out/nix/var/nix/gcroots/profiles
 
       ln -s ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/env $out/usr/bin/env
       ln -s ${pkgs.bashInteractive}/bin/bash $out/bin/sh
@@ -113,9 +115,6 @@ in
 
     uid = 1000;
     gid = 1000;
-    extraCommands = ''
-      ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles nix/var/nix/gcroots/profiles
-    '';
     fakeRootCommands = ''
       chown -R 1000:1000 ./
       chmod 1777 tmp
@@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ in
     '';
 
     config = {
-      Cmd = ["/home/coder/.nix-profile/bin/bash"];
+      Cmd = ["/bin/bash"];
       User = "1000:1000";
       Env = [
         "USER=coder"
@@ -132,6 +131,8 @@ in
         "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp"
         "PATH=${lib.concatStringsSep ":" [
           "/home/coder/.nix-profile/bin"
+          # this makes all the packages defined at the top available
+          # in the workspace
           "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin"
           "/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/sbin"
         ]}"