bug: Standalone install process installs 24.11

[thewellington]

Are you following the right branch?

• My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

I am running Nixos 24.05.

When following the standalone installation process here : https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#sec-install-standalone I run nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-24.05.tar.gz home-manager followed by nix-channel update' and nix-shell '' -A install` and I get the following:

warning: You are using

  Home Manager version 24.11 and
  Nixpkgs version 24.05.

Using mismatched versions is likely to cause errors and unexpected
behavior. It is therefore highly recommended to use a release of Home
Manager that corresponds with your chosen release of Nixpkgs.

If you insist then you can disable this warning by adding

  home.enableNixpkgsReleaseCheck = false;

to your configuration.

I clearly am not using 24.11, I specified 24.05 I even tried the process leaving out the nix-channel --update step but still 24.11 insists on being the version of home-manager.

Until this is fixed I can't install home manger. I suppose I could wait until Nixos 24.11 is released...

Maintainer CC

yeah... I don't know who should be CCd

System information

[nix-shell:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.52, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20241002.5966581`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8`
 - channels(root): `"home-manager, nixos-24.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/6dxvxz52z172kxdi97bw4grpkhzx4dx7-source`


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