From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>,
help-guix@gnu.org, Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Error when using "guix gc -D" to delete directory in /gnu/store
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:09:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cz4ky5xb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A72DD9D-1676-4AF3-BB16-641E6CB6F7F6@lepiller.eu>
Hi,
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 07:36, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> First of all, you don't need to delete these files. Even if they exist
> in the store, they won't be foumd by other software unless they are
> currently installed in one of your profiles.
>
> The error you get when you try to delete them means that one of the
> generations of one of your profiles still has a reference to them. You
> should have a look at the symlinks at /var/guix/profiles to fehure out
> which profile and which generetion that is.
For listing all your profiles, you can run:
guix package --list-profiles
Well, you could run something like:
for p in $(guix package --list-profiles);
do
echo $p;
guix package -p $p --list-generations | grep rime-data
;done
so you will find in which profile you installed and removed the package
rime-data. Then, ’guix package -p path/to/that/profile -l’ will list
all the generations. Depending on context, you can delete the
generations containing the package rime-data; see “guix package
--delete-generations”.
Last, “guix gc -D” should work as expected.
Please note that the corollary of your annoyance is that you are still
able to switch to a specific generation of some profile containing the
package ’rime-data’ without doing anything more (download or else).
Cheers,
simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-04 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-19 0:33 Newbie: Error when using "guix gc -D" to delete directory in /gnu/store Rodrigo Morales
2023-03-19 6:36 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-04-03 22:09 ` Simon Tournier [this message]
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