From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Guix-Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:34:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftybhifp.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvms555s.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:02:07 +0200")
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>> it works well in my preferred mode of operation where I
>> build everything locally and never use substitutes.
>
> Do substitutes change the way GC behaves? I use substitutes.
No. However, if you build everything locally, it becomes more important
to avoid deleting store items that will be needed to build your next
system update, and so the --gc-keep-* flags become important.
>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>> keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>
> You mean system generations? I did that.
Right.
>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>> grub.cfg
>> (4) guix gc
>
> I did all this. Then ghc-pandoc and all the ghc dependencies did not go.
What is the output of "guix gc --referrers /gnu/store/xxxxx.drv" when
applied to the .drv file for ghc-pandoc?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 19:11 Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-12 10:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-13 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-13 9:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-14 10:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 17:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-14 18:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 21:34 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-09-14 22:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-09 6:53 ` swedebugia
2018-11-09 7:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-09 10:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-09 16:47 ` swedebugia
2018-11-13 20:31 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-13 21:14 ` swedebugia
2018-11-14 8:21 ` [bug#33374] [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system generations swedebugia
2019-01-03 16:24 ` swedebugia
2022-04-07 11:56 ` zimoun
2022-05-19 21:28 ` zimoun
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