From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:03:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn74g1t0.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737sh11x1.fsf@gmail.com>
Alex Kost writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Heya all,
>>
>> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't*
>> your system or default user profile.
>>
>> guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello
>>
>> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around.
>>
>> David seemed to think that maybe the profile link would be under
>> /var/guix/profiles/
> [...]
>> What's keeping that profile around? Will it ever get gc'ed? Is it
>> somehow recorded in Guix's state files?
>
> Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/. If you remove old generations, they
> will be removed from gcroots/auto next time you run "guix gc".
Cool... okay! So when I delete that profile directory it does
appropriately gc things. Very neat!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-25 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 0:30 What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed? Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-25 11:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-25 17:03 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-26 20:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-27 9:57 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-27 17:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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