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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: delete profile
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 05:55:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314055518.GA12348@mail.thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f3t9dgj.fsf@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:35:56PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> Federico Beffa (2017-03-12 18:28 +0100) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've created a profile for test purposes with
> >
> > guix package -p $HOME/guix-test-profile -m test-manifest.scm
> >
> > that now I would like to delete.  I've looked up the documentation but
> > not found any suitable command.  What's the recommended procedure to
> > delete it?
> 
> I would simply remove it and all its generations
> ("$HOME/guix-test-profile-XX-link") manually.  I don't know if there is
> any recommended way to do it though.

That removes the symlinks to a directory in /var/guix/profiles. I
think you also need to remove the links in the latter if you want the
garbage collection to work. 

Is that correct?

Pj.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-14  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-12 17:28 delete profile Federico Beffa
2017-03-13 19:35 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14  5:55   ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-03-14  8:42     ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-14 14:36       ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 16:43         ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-15 11:09           ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-15 16:00             ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-16  9:13           ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 14:28     ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 15:18       ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-16  9:13         ` Alex Kost
2017-03-16 12:18           ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-14 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès

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