Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations

[swedebugia]

Hi :)

On 2018-12-19 17:49, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
snip


>             (display-hint (format #f (G_ "Consider deleting old profile
> -generations and collecting garbage, along these lines:
> +generations, deleting old Guix checkouts and collecting garbage, along these
> +lines:
>   
>   @example
> -guix package -p ~s --delete-generations=1m
> -guix gc
> address@hidden example\n")
> -                                profile))
> +guix package --profile=~s --delete-generations=1m
> +guix package --profile=~s --delete-generations=1m

Why duplicate lines here?

> +guix gc --free-space=5G
> address@hidden example
> +
> +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).")
> +                                profile
> +                                (string-append (config-directory #:ensure? #f) 
> "/current")))

I think this is quite long and I don't understand your phrase about 
broken symlinks.

Could you write a new section "Freeing up space in GuixSD" in the manual 
instead and refer to that here instead?

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Cheers Swedebugia