Noob Question: Debugging & Updating

[xsova]

1. Is there a way to debug the build-switch exec? I know there exists a nix flake check /path/to/flake but I'm not sure that the same thing exists for nix run. I've been trying to switch all my configs over to this, and it seems like a bit of a pain point for me when I am exiting my text editor (helix).. Maybe there's a debugger configuration?

2. How would I go about updating everything like home-manager, nix, etc? I see in hosts/darwin/default.nix the system.stateVersion is 4, and the (I think?) current version is 24.05. Is there a particular reason that one would want to avoid updating it? What would happen if I did change that value and reran build-switch?

[jplee-metaframe]

RE Updating: I'm just doing:

nix flake update

Seems to work.