From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: protect generations
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:38:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115083839.GK858@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ3=CCEvE-4iqo2g3yQfz5L22MHxqpb_jXQvGCR+9QB0GA@mail.gmail.com>
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> For example, let consider this scenario:
>
> guix package --install list of packages # (1)
> guix package -i other ones -r some # (2)
> guix package --upgrade # (3)
> guix package -i again -r bye bye # (4)
> guix package --roll-back # (5)
> guix package -i kikoo # (6)
> etc.
>
> Now, the profile at the generation (6) is fine and you want to garbage
> collect all the previous generations. But you know that the generation
> (2) was ok. To my knowledge, it is not easy to GC the generations 1,
> 3, 4, 5 without collecting the 2.
>
In this scenario you can run 'guix gc --delete-generations=1,3,4,5'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-05 21:42 protect generations Marco van Hulten
2020-01-07 12:11 ` zimoun
2020-01-12 14:57 ` Marco van Hulten
2020-01-14 16:38 ` zimoun
2020-01-15 8:38 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2020-01-15 10:54 ` zimoun
2020-01-11 23:50 ` Marius Bakke
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