From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Deck Pickard <deck.r.pickard@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: So... HOWTO gc systems?
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:19:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvcs273p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ41eew3-wZ+zOcYobCTPATKf_wN7QG60ci1t1CuRAw216xYoQ@mail.gmail.com> (Deck Pickard's message of "Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:20:27 +0100")
Deck Pickard <deck.r.pickard@gmail.com> skribis:
> Is it as simple as rm'ing system-N-link from /var/guix/profiles && 'guix
> gc'...?
Currently yes. The plan is to reuse --delete-generations and
--list-generations from ‘guix package’ in ‘guix system’, which would be
more convenient.
> Recreating grub.cfg with 'system reconfigure', at least, would be needed in
> order to prevent fubar on trying to boot into non-existent menu
> definitions. Still, that will create yet another system profile...
Yeah. When ‘guix system --delete-generations’ is implemented, we can
arrange to have it regenerate grub.cfg such that it does not keep
references to now-deleted generations.
Ludo’.
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2014-12-05 18:20 ` So... HOWTO gc systems? Deck Pickard
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