From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete profile
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:36:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgs8apsu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efy0mepb.fsf@lupo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:42:56 +0100")
Federico Beffa (2017-03-14 09:42 +0100) wrote:
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:35:56PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>>> Federico Beffa (2017-03-12 18:28 +0100) wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I've created a profile for test purposes with
>>> >
>>> > guix package -p $HOME/guix-test-profile -m test-manifest.scm
>>> >
>>> > that now I would like to delete. I've looked up the documentation but
>>> > not found any suitable command. What's the recommended procedure to
>>> > delete it?
>>>
>>> I would simply remove it and all its generations
>>> ("$HOME/guix-test-profile-XX-link") manually. I don't know if there is
>>> any recommended way to do it though.
>>
>> That removes the symlinks to a directory in /var/guix/profiles. I
>> think you also need to remove the links in the latter if you want the
>> garbage collection to work.
>
> 'guix -p $HOME/guix-test-profile' lists only 1 generation (but I did
> create another one and then I rolled-back).
>
> I run 'guix gc' and now I find dangling symlinks in my $HOME.
What dangling symlinks? Just remove them :-)
> One
> symlink is still active (the active generation) which imply that it is
> registered as a GC root.
Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/ to see the registered GC roots, but
don't remove them manually, just remove the profile links you created,
then "guix gc" should clean the store from those profiles.
> However, it's not in
> '/usr/local/var/guix/profiles' (I installed from source with the default
> prefix=/usr/local).
this var/guix/profiles is only for system and per-user profiles.
Profiles that you create explicitly (with --profile option) are not
placed there.
> Not sure where to find it.
I'm not sure what you mean: the profiles you created with "guix package
-p $HOME/guix-test-profile -i ..." are in the store and the symlinks to
them are these "$HOME/guix-test-profile[-XXX-link]" links. Simply remove
these links and run "guix gc".
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 17:28 delete profile Federico Beffa
2017-03-13 19:35 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 5:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-14 8:42 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-14 14:36 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2017-03-14 16:43 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-15 11:09 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-15 16:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-16 9:13 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 14:28 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 15:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-16 9:13 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-16 12:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-14 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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