Commit cfe66dbec updated `nix upgrade-nix` to use
`ExecutablePath::load().find`, which broke the logic for finding the
profile associated with the nix executable. The error looks something
like:
```
$ sudo -i nix upgrade-nix --debug
found Nix in '"/nix/store/46p1z0w9ad605kky62dr53z4h24k2a5r-nix-2.25.2/bin/nix"'
found profile '/nix/store/46p1z0w9ad605kky62dr53z4h24k2a5r-nix-2.25.2/bin'
error: directory '"/nix/store/46p1z0w9ad605kky62dr53z4h24k2a5r-nix-2.25.2/bin/nix"' does not appear to be part of a Nix profile
```
This seems to happen for two reasons:
1. The original PATH search resulted in a directory, but `find` returns
the path to the executable. Fixed by getting the path's parent.
2. The profile symlink cannot be found because
`ExecutablePath::load().find` canonicalizes the executable path. I
updated find to normalize the path instead, which seems more in line
with how other programs resolve paths. I'm not sure if this affects
other callers though.
I manually tested this on macOS and Linux, and it seemed to fix
upgrading from 2.25.2 to 2.25.3.
(cherry picked from commit 4f831e2be5)
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