bug: 23.05 -> 23.11 `newsInfo` not found

[Rosuavio]

Are you following the right branch?

• [X] My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

With a standalone installation, after updating nixpkgs and home-manager references to 23.11, when running home-manager build I get this error.

...
building '/nix/store/xbqbyaakp9h6sqknjnvp9wgmqhh589k7-home-manager-generation.drv'...
/nix/store/lkl072ngvib2gdmpwf7mrg21fag069hy-home-manager-generation
error: attribute 'newsInfo' in selection path 'newsInfo' not found
/home/rosario/.nix-profile/bin/home-manager: line 526: /run/user/1000/home-manager-build.nt98UKMCzP/news-info.sh: No such file or directory

It might not be a big issue, when running home-manager switch the error shows, but the new configs are installed along with the new home-manager script regardless. And next uses of home-manager commands don't seem to show the error.

Also this error could be just me. While I have...

programs.home-manager.enable = true;

some of my config is different that "standalone+channels". I use a wrapper I wrote that allows me to avoid channels in a development shell

let
  sources = import ./nix/sources.nix;

  pkgs = import sources.nixpkgs-unstable {};
  home-config = import sources.home-config {};

in pkgs.mkShell rec {

  name = "home-dev";

  packages = [
    (home-config.mkHomeScriptWrapper { home-config-path = toString ./. + "/home.nix"; })
  ];

  NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE = 1;
}

Maintainer CC

@rycee

System information

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.63, NixOS, 23.05 (Stoat), 23.05pre-git`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.13.6`
 - channels(rosario): `"nixpkgs"`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-22.11"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/rosario/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs`

[AndrewKvalheim]

Running nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install appears to have worked around it, though the switch implicit in that was inconvenient as I’d originally only wanted to build.

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