Re: Unexpected results with Guix.

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 11:51:52AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 01:39:43PM +0000, Jone wrote:
> > 
> > We seem to be going in circles =)
> > > for r in $(guix gc --list-roots); do ls -l $r; done
> > 
> 
> You want to delete /gnu/store/zxqr8afp3rpd2r3g9x41sqg5mx525355-profile.
> 
> `for r in $(guix gc --list-roots); do ls -l $r; done` should list what
> links to the profile
> /gnu/store/zxqr8afp3rpd2r3g9x41sqg5mx525355-profile.  That is what you
> need to delete.
> 

You need to delete the link to
/gnu/store/zxqr8afp3rpd2r3g9x41sqg5mx525355-profile
not
/gnu/store/zxqr8afp3rpd2r3g9x41sqg5mx525355-profile
itself.

for r in $(guix gc --list-roots); do ls -l $r; done
shows the link to
/gnu/store/zxqr8afp3rpd2r3g9x41sqg5mx525355-profile.