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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: protect generations
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:11:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ30WJUQxtD7qZDoCKuMKo7-nrA+q0zxQ03bCY48g7LxvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200105224236.2e4fb9c2@jasniac.instanton>

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 22:42, Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> wrote:

> One of the great features of Guix is that one can roll back his
> profile.  But I did a garbage collection (gc) that was too aggressive
> such that a relevant old profile disappeared.  I presume this is gone
> forever.

From my understanding, yes gone but not necessary forever.

How did you instantiate the profile? Using a manifest file? Did the
profile use only one Guix commit or several?
How aggressive it was? What did you run?


> Is it possible to lock certain generations (of certain users) such that
> 'guix gc' would not touch it?

Interesting whislist.

Currently, the easiest way to protect the state of a profile is to
write down a manifest file, IMHO.
If this manifest file track the Guix commit and the targeted packages,
then you can re-instantiate this very profile whereever and whenever
you want to.


Hope that helps.

All the best,
simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-05 21:42 protect generations Marco van Hulten
2020-01-07 12:11 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-01-12 14:57   ` Marco van Hulten
2020-01-14 16:38     ` zimoun
2020-01-15  8:38       ` Efraim Flashner
2020-01-15 10:54         ` zimoun
2020-01-11 23:50 ` Marius Bakke

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