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Re: So... HOWTO gc systems?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: So... HOWTO gc systems?
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:19:54 +0100
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Deck Pickard <address@hidden> skribis:

> Is it as simple as rm'ing system-N-link from /var/guix/profiles && 'guix
> gc'...?

Currently yes.  The plan is to reuse --delete-generations and
--list-generations from ‘guix package’ in ‘guix system’, which would be
more convenient.

> Recreating grub.cfg with 'system reconfigure', at least, would be needed in
> order to prevent fubar on trying to boot into non-existent menu
> definitions. Still, that will create yet another system profile...

Yeah.  When ‘guix system --delete-generations’ is implemented, we can
arrange to have it regenerate grub.cfg such that it does not keep
references to now-deleted generations.

Ludo’.



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