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Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations
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Chris Marusich |
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Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations |
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Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:48:32 -0800 |
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Hi Pierre,
Thank you for your patience!
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "Guix checkouts". Do you mean a Git
>> checkout of Guix's Git repository? If so, why would deleting it help?
>
> Well, I meant what I wrote in the example below
OK. Since that example deletes profile generations, Can we just say
"profile generations" instead of "checkouts"? The latter makes me think
of a Git repository checkout. Maybe the phrase "cleaning up old
profiles" would be good enough, since we put a clear example right after
the sentence. I wouldn't mind either way, as long as we avoid using the
term "checkout" to refer to profiles and their generations.
>> guix package --profile=~s --delete-generations=1m
>> ...
>> (string-append (config-directory #:ensure? #f) "/current")
>
> It deletes the old ~/.config/guix/ profiles. If I'm not wrong, each of those
> profiles consume a couple of 100MBs.
>
> So if "checkout" is confusing, what about "Guix copy" instead?
>
> See "(guix) Invoking guix pull" in the manual for terminology.
>
>> "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)."
>
> I like it better! I'll use your suggestion.
OK! Could you submit a new patch?
Thank you for helping to improve the "user experience"!
--
Chris
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- About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/08
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Chris Marusich, 2018/12/08
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/09
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/09
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/09
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Chris Marusich, 2018/12/09
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/10
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/17
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations,
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- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/19
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Chris Marusich, 2018/12/19
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/19
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/19
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/19
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, swedebugia, 2018/12/25
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/25
- Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations, swedebugia, 2018/12/25
- GC hints, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/12/19
- Re: GC hints, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/12/19