install-nix-action-v16

The last release didn't fix https://github.com/nektos/act correctly.

This release corrects that and adds a test (you need act from master branch).

install-nix-action-v15

• Enable flakes and the new CLI by default
• Fix #97: single installation for Act and Docker should be fixed
• Fix #91: retry official installation as it can sometimes return 400

install-nix-action-v14.1

github actions disable Spotlight by default now, so we don't have to do it in this action anymore

install-nix-action-v14

• Create X number of users where X = 2 * cpu cores
• Linux: fallback to single-user installation if there's no systemd (support for https://github.com/nektos/act)
• Fixes a subtle bug on self-hosted runners when installation fails

install-nix-action-v13

Adds support for install_options that allows passing custom installer options. Run sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --help to see what's supported.

This feature is useful for installing/testing development versions of Nix.

install-nix-action-v12

• Idempotent installation

  Don't run the installer if Nix has already been installed on the host.
  We assume that the installed Nix is already in the desired state.

  This allows to share a given pipeline between hosted and self-hosted
  runners. Usually the self-hosted runners are long-lived and already have
  Nix installed.

  Note that this breaks backwards compatibility if you relied on installing Nix twice with different inputs

• Replaced deprecated GitHub functions

install-nix-action-v11

• BREAKING: By default it has no nixpkgs configured, you have to set nix_path
  by picking a channel
  or pin nixpkgs yourself.
• Support self-hosted runners by not installing Nix if it's already installed
• Add extra_nix_config option to specify extra nix.conf options

install-nix-action-v10

Allow setting nix_path

install-nix-action-v9

• allow specifying install_url, mostly useful for testing non-stable Nix releases
• allow skipping installation of nixpkgs channel via skip_adding_nixpkgs_channel: true to speed up installation for ~5s
• a bunch of improvements in Nix 2.3.5 significantly speeds up installation: Linux can now install in ~7s, macOS in ~20s

install-nix-action-v8

Allow installation path to redirect