From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:49:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87k1jxigrj.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> References: <878t10xpam.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87wooj1fmx.fsf@gmail.com> <87efaqna9u.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87d0qana9e.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1kivmzt.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87lg4yz6gz.fsf@gmail.com> <87ftv523m2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <875zvqkz9b.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0pyvtvd.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87a7l1a3vv.fsf@gmail.com> <87bm5hv5v1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <878t0lv5pj.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87pntxwjga.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <4bfb5a25-7f50-1faf-dd7f-660e45c84459@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbrlU-0003Xc-CO for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:49:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbrlO-000446-IB for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:49:16 -0500 Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:42739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbrlN-00042S-DV for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:49:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <4bfb5a25-7f50-1faf-dd7f-660e45c84459@riseup.net> 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: swedebugia Cc: help-guix --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Why duplicate lines here? They are not duplicated, the arguments are > + profile > + (string-append (config-directory #:ensur= e? #f) "/current"))) so one is for the user profile, one is for the Guix "checkout". > : +You might also want to delete old non-default profiles pointed to by > : +the symlinks in /var/guix/gcroots/auto (broken symlinks in this > : +directory will be automatically removed).") > : + profile > : + (string-append (config-directory #:ens= ure? #f) "/current"))) >=20 > I think this is quite long and I don't understand your phrase about broken > symlinks. In /var/guix/gcroots/auto, you'll find symlinks to custom profiles, e.g. ~/.my-guix-profile. If you remove ~/.my-guix-profile, then the symlink in /var/guix/gcroots/auto will be broken and automatically removed by Guix. Makes sense? Can you suggest a better phrasing? > Could you write a new section "Freeing up space in GuixSD" in the manual = instead > and refer to that here instead? That could be a good solution indeed. What do you people think? =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlwie6AACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH+dDgf/VeC1RbSCMyk1zRUbMd7fSRT87frAfDkzMg1dVPmNOIhRn7HIPrKvORbI lUXIsnbPD7bm+j8ESIm6Dbf49Yg57gEsWk+OQ4I1sv6kyCcp1rd1YdwFCwzDI8E2 RefpLXcC+MjcfU9WvhRIlJg1DVu86Z2KkLu5D+ylE5dHPETOaKTPsiG+eH9ziHPe D79tU4ABZ12FsQtLnNxDt4Xk0jXqF1vk66TzeTtE8JgnGLro3Ri9MOwGo15B9J0n SYFNoR0bzyiIc1TNofUxNNIjquLDV8nkGu5PZl7Apon6i5T7aPg0WqOJ1nCJNP9D HpVY+PaCCdTOUTfCEsv9bJYPvY+X4g== =81GT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--