`exec sudo --preserve-env` (needed to carry the NOMARCHY_* vars) also
drags the live session user's HOME=/home/nomarchy into the root install
process. Root-run `nix build` then writes an eval cache + .nix-defexpr
there, and the in-chroot one lands on the TARGET as a stray, orphaned
/home/nomarchy (no such user on the installed system). Pin root's own
HOME after the sudo re-exec, and again inside the nixos-enter chroot
script. The user activation already sets HOME=/home/$USERNAME and is
unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bernardo Magri
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