Deleting system generations

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mekeor Melire <address@hidden> skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Wait.  AFAIK one cannot delete system generations [yet].  Has that changed?
>>
>> But deleting user [package] generations works, yes.
>
> Somewhere on the mailing-list I found out that you can delete a system
> generation like this:
>
>     $ rm /var/guix/profiles/system-N-link
>     $ guix gc
>
> (as root?)

Yes, that’s all it takes.

Thomas: I think you (was it you?) started working on a ‘guix system
delete-generations’ sub-command so make it more accessible.  Any update?
:-)

We should definitely add that command.

Thanks,
Ludo’.