From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
Cc: 35176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#35176] [PATCH 0/5] 'guix gc --delete-generations' and '--list-roots'
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:02:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftqrdk1s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190409210109.42ba3cee@alma-ubu> ("Björn Höfling"'s message of "Tue, 9 Apr 2019 21:01:09 +0200")
Hi Björn,
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> skribis:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 23:26:56 +0200
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> This patch series is mostly about making it easier to free space:
>> ‘guix gc --delete-generations’ deletes old generations of all the
>> user’s profiles prior to collecting garbage.
>>
>> For consistency, ‘--delete-generations’ is aliased with ‘-d’, so
>> ‘-d’ is repurposed (until now it was an alias for ‘--delete’).
>
> I'm using regularly `guix gc -d /gnu/store/...` and I'm a bit concerned
> about re/abusing this existing parameter. First I like the simple '-d'
> to delete a store path.
It still works actually, it just prints a warning stating that it’s
deprecated. (I’m used to ‘-d’ as well but I’m confident my muscle
memory will get used to ‘-D’. :-))
> Second, how big is the chance I could accidentally delete (all) older
> generations of my profiles?
It’s unlikely because if you do “guix gc -d /gnu/store/…”, it still
behaves like before.
Does it address your concern?
> I really like to keep them for a long time, until my disk is
> near-full, and it looks like gc-roots are no longer a safe way to keep
> them?
It’s still safe, I do the same as you! The intent is just to provide a
simple way to “remove old stuff” (currently you have to know that you
have at least two profiles, and then run ‘guix package -p … -d’, which
isn’t very convenient when all you want is to free some space.)
Thanks for your feedback!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-06 21:26 [bug#35176] [PATCH 0/5] 'guix gc --delete-generations' and '--list-roots' Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-06 21:31 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 1/5] Add (guix store roots) Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-06 21:31 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 2/5] guix gc: Add '--list-roots' Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-06 21:31 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 3/5] profiles: Add 'generation-profile' Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-06 21:31 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 4/5] guix gc: Add '--delete-generations' Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-06 21:31 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 5/5] scripts: GC hint suggests 'guix gc -d 1m' Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-09 19:01 ` [bug#35176] [PATCH 0/5] 'guix gc --delete-generations' and '--list-roots' Björn Höfling
2019-04-09 20:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-09 20:58 ` Björn Höfling
2019-04-10 15:19 ` bug#35176: " Ludovic Courtès
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