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bug#33274: [wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix system rem
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
bug#33274: [wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix system remove-generation |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Nov 2018 15:37:22 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 01:02:13PM +0100, swedebugia wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to make a patch for this if somebody is willing to mentor me.
>
> The idea is
>
> * removing symlinks-procedure
> * argument to remove x old generations.
> o ex guix system remove-generation --keep-2
> this would remove all system generations besides the latest 2.
> * warning if user tries to remove so that less than 2 genererations
> resides
> * hinting to run guix gc
This is a longstanding missing feature. A patch was discussed a while
ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00194.html
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