From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cleaning the store
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 08:39:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iny0dmyc.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160526183636.GA19120@jasmine>
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
>> There are only 2 profiles on this machine: mine and root's profile
>>
>> As for mine, I eliminated ALL previous generations and emacs-cider is not
>> installed in the current one
>>
>> As for root's profile:
>>
>> $ guix package -p root --list-installed
>>
>> returns nothing
>>
>>
>> and
>> $ guix package -p root --list-generations
>> guix package: error: profile 'root' does not exist
>
> I think the argument to '-p' is the generation of the profile (an
> integer). You should try running it as root, since I doubt you can read
> root's profiles as an unprivileged user.
No, “--profile” or “-p” expects a *path* to a profile. For root’s
profile you would either be root and use the default (no “-p” option),
or use “-p /root/.guix-profile” or similar, provided you have read
access to this file.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-27 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-26 16:36 cleaning the store Catonano
2016-05-26 16:58 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-26 18:16 ` Catonano
2016-05-26 18:36 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-26 18:41 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-27 6:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-05-26 18:40 ` Thompson, David
2016-05-26 18:38 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-26 19:10 ` Catonano
2016-05-26 19:34 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-26 20:09 ` Catonano
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