* Best way to delete system profile generations?
@ 2020-07-09 16:04 Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-09 16:15 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber @ 2020-07-09 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hello! I wonder what others do to delete their system profile
generations? Here are some paths I know about.
Path one: using the command line manually
# Look at which profiles are available
ls -l /var/guix/profiles/
# Remove them manually
rm /var/guix/profiles/system-{9,10,11}-link
Path two: using emacs, but you gotta do it as root so:
# start up emacs as root, with the system generations listed:
sudo -E emacs -nw -q --eval "(progn (require 'guix) (guix-system-generations))"
# Now you can browse the generations with more information available,
# decide with a bit more care which ones to remove.
# Mark each one you want to remove with "D", and delete with "x".
Is there a better way? What do others do? It doesn't seem there's a
good way to delete from my current emacs session because it requires
root privileges.
guix-mode remains great, btw!
- Chris
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* Re: Best way to delete system profile generations?
2020-07-09 16:04 Best way to delete system profile generations? Christopher Lemmer Webber
@ 2020-07-09 16:15 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-07-10 14:23 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant @ 2020-07-09 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber; +Cc: help-guix
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Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
> Hello! I wonder what others do to delete their system profile
> generations? Here are some paths I know about.
>
> Path one: using the command line manually
>
> # Look at which profiles are available
> ls -l /var/guix/profiles/
> # Remove them manually
> rm /var/guix/profiles/system-{9,10,11}-link
>
> Path two: using emacs, but you gotta do it as root so:
>
> # start up emacs as root, with the system generations listed:
> sudo -E emacs -nw -q --eval "(progn (require 'guix) (guix-system-generations))"
>
> # Now you can browse the generations with more information available,
> # decide with a bit more care which ones to remove.
> # Mark each one you want to remove with "D", and delete with "x".
>
> Is there a better way? What do others do? It doesn't seem there's a
> good way to delete from my current emacs session because it requires
> root privileges.
>
> guix-mode remains great, btw!
>
> - Chris
There is the "guix system delete-generations ..." command which I think
does what you're looking for.
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* Re: Best way to delete system profile generations?
2020-07-09 16:15 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
@ 2020-07-10 14:23 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber @ 2020-07-10 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guillaume Le Vaillant; +Cc: help-guix
Guillaume Le Vaillant writes:
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
>> Hello! I wonder what others do to delete their system profile
>> generations? Here are some paths I know about.
>>
>> Path one: using the command line manually
>>
>> # Look at which profiles are available
>> ls -l /var/guix/profiles/
>> # Remove them manually
>> rm /var/guix/profiles/system-{9,10,11}-link
>>
>> Path two: using emacs, but you gotta do it as root so:
>>
>> # start up emacs as root, with the system generations listed:
>> sudo -E emacs -nw -q --eval "(progn (require 'guix) (guix-system-generations))"
>>
>> # Now you can browse the generations with more information available,
>> # decide with a bit more care which ones to remove.
>> # Mark each one you want to remove with "D", and delete with "x".
>>
>> Is there a better way? What do others do? It doesn't seem there's a
>> good way to delete from my current emacs session because it requires
>> root privileges.
>>
>> guix-mode remains great, btw!
>>
>> - Chris
>
> There is the "guix system delete-generations ..." command which I think
> does what you're looking for.
Ah, I didn't know about that command somehow! Thank you!
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