On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, at 4:56 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>> `delete-generations` only understands
>> arguments meaning "older than this date" as far as I can tell
...
> Have you tried 'sudo guix system delete-generations N'? It seemed to
> work for me.
Yes, that works for me.
> Following the references in the manual
How did you get there from this?
‘delete-generations’
Delete system generations, making them candidates for garbage
collection (*note Invoking guix gc::, for information on how to run
the “garbage collector”).
This works in the same way as ‘guix package --delete-generations’
(*note ‘--delete-generations’: Invoking guix package.). With no
arguments, all system generations but the current one are deleted:
guix system delete-generations
You can also select the generations you want to delete. The
example below deletes all the system generations that are more than
two months old:
guix system delete-generations 2m
I don't see any relevant links. (Perhaps the problem is that one of
these links _is_ relevant but doesn't look like it? In particular,
the link to "Invoking guix package" goes to the _top_ of that very
long page; it might be that there's something relevant _somewhere_
in there, but I really shouldn't have to hunt for it. In my opinion,
the full syntax of the `delete-generations' command should be documented
right there in the documentation of `delete-generations' itself.)
zw
