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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 24194-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24194: GUIX gc - add warning
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:43:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv3rb2bj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160810185620.GA14104@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:56:20 -0400")

Hello,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:59:28PM -0400, J. Eppler wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  
>> I used GUIX for the first time and invoked: guix gc. The command deleted
>> all my bootstrap files (gcc, binutils, findutils etc.). There should be
>> a warning added to the manual page:
>> 
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-gc.html
>
> I think the concept of garbage collector roots should be clarified in
> the manual somehow and linked to from 'Invoking guix gc'. Or it could
> even go in that section.
>
> I was surprised to find that the string 'gcroots' does not appear in the
> manual.

I’ve now pushed some clarifications:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=6a98b9f34e6190a2e1d11bedd5853aa94cf25ca7

Closing!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-12 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 23:59 bug#24194: GUIX gc - add warning J. Eppler
2016-08-10  5:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 18:56 ` Leo Famulari
2017-11-12 21:43   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
     [not found]     ` <87d13l89yy.fsf@portkomputilo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
     [not found]       ` <87h8swtjdp.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <87h8slrvyw.fsf@portkomputilo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
2017-12-22  9:46           ` bug#29662: " Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-24 23:16             ` Joshua Branson
2018-01-16 21:16               ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira

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