Activation fails because of jq args

[tboerger]

Looks like te activation fails with recent versions of nix/nixpkgs as jq doesn't offer the argument argfile anymore:

× home-manager-thomas.service - Home Manager environment for thomas
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/home-manager-thomas.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2024-07-01 22:21:59 CEST; 2min 6s ago
    Process: 57630 ExecStart=/nix/store/cv17kn1r2d7im3bjkj4qca1ig0myn3s2-hm-setup-env /nix/store/9zfm91hda4fxsl5rnr91vbnhcr2pz9j2-home-manager-generation (code=exited, status=2)
   Main PID: 57630 (code=exited, status=2)
         IP: 0B in, 0B out
        CPU: 1.633s

Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[57630]: Activating writeBoundary
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[57630]: Activating createGpgHomedir
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[57630]: Activating homeageCleanup
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[58525]: /nix/store/43x59xa6fidzd9jys7jvhv66bjfjm4cp-jq-1.7.1-bin/bin/jq: Unknown option --argfile
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[58525]: Use /nix/store/43x59xa6fidzd9jys7jvhv66bjfjm4cp-jq-1.7.1-bin/bin/jq --help for help with command-line options,
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum hm-activate-thomas[58525]: or see the jq manpage, or online docs  at https://jqlang.github.io/jq
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum systemd[1]: home-manager-thomas.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum systemd[1]: home-manager-thomas.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 01 22:21:59 chnum systemd[1]: Failed to start Home Manager environment for thomas.

Looking at the commit history I guess this project is not really maintained anymore?

[derekcrovo]

I hit this issue as well. Check out #43, it worked for me. There's some question about how well the change handles arrays. It might need a little more work but so far so good.
We just need that PR merged. Any chance of that happening soon @jordanisaacs ?

[tboerger]

You don't need to use homeage anymore... There is a homemanager module part of agenix these days. I have migrated my repo to that.

[derekcrovo]

Thanks @tboerger, I didn't realize that! I'll go take a look. It would be a good note to put in the README.