From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: A few questions about packages Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:01:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2ovlt0x.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euLCK-0000mF-Qj for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:48:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euLCG-0003Hy-SR for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:48:48 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euLCG-0003Hq-Ji for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:48:44 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Jone Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Jone writes: > Hello. Can I remove old package versions and other builds? On the example > of Icecat: > > 252.1 MiB [ ] > /5ym67s5vp1vmnc3y4ds4r3687vc3nl25-icecat-52.6.0-gnu1 > 252.0 MiB [ ] > /360i9ca4gnm3rsjj8v43ih0j3mfrp40n-icecat-52.6.0-gnu1 > 246.8 MiB [ ] > /kd0nnq3i0qarx4vqxcampxfj3igxn84h-icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 > > (Or is it possible to remove a specific package, in "package-version" > format?) You can remove all unused packages with =E2=80=9Cguix gc=E2=80=9D. Individ= ual store items can be removed with =E2=80=9Cguix gc -d /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D= . =E2=80=9CUnused=E2=80=9D means that no profile generation refers to the ite= m, so you may want to delete old profile generations with =E2=80=9Cguix package -d=E2=80= =9D first. > And the next question, is also about Icecat: version 52.6.0 was compiled > from source. This is too long. Can I create binary package from this loca= l > installation? After building it once from source you won=E2=80=99t have to build it again until the dependencies to Icecat are modified. Building Icecat does indeed take a long time. The current version is 52.6.0-gnu1 and should be built by our build farms. When you=E2=80=99re us= ing the latest version of Guix then you should be able to get a binary as soon as the build farms have compiled that package. Only if no binary is available you will have to build it from source. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net