From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:32:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760xbfc1q.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737sh11x1.fsf@gmail.com>
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't*
>> your system or default user profile.
>>
>> guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello
>>
>> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around.
[...]
>> What's keeping that profile around? Will it ever get gc'ed? Is it
>> somehow recorded in Guix's state files?
>
> Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/.
It would be nice to have a user interface for that, too, so that users
can quickly get an overview on all their custom profiles that may be
littered across local and remote filesystems.
What do you think?
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 0:30 What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed? Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-25 11:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-25 17:03 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 20:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-02-27 9:57 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-27 17:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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