nightowl <address@hidden> writes:
I have been trying to upgrade the icecat package. I am using the
'guix system reconfigure' command, but seem to be running out of disk
space.
Generally, I recommend keeping the user profile separate from a lean
system profile. This allows you to upgrade your system even if some of
your user packages cannot currently be built for some reason.
It is also starting to compile some things instead of using
substitutes, but maybe I need to wait for the servers to settle down.
That’s possible. You can get an overview of what’s going to be
downloaded and what will be built with the “--dry-run” option.
Currently after running garbage collection, my installation is still
about 17GB on a 20GB partition. I have several generations of past
configurations, so would it be possible to free up space by removing
some of the past generations? How would that be done, I do not see a
command for doing that?
You need to manually remove old links of the form
/var/guix/profiles/system-*-link — be careful not to remove the link
corresponding to the current system! After that you can run “guix gc”.
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Ricardo