Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> writes: > Oh, you mean the system-wide profile? (i.e. > /nix/var/nix/profiles/system) That's the root's profile. If you use > `nix-env` as root, it will operate on that by default. You typically > need elevated privileges, but it's probably possible to change > permissions of that directory...
At least for --list-generations operation that is not true tested on 2 machines. I have to set the system-directory parameter to get access to it. bash-4.4# nix-env --list-generations 16 2017-01-10 09:28:31 (current) bash-4.4# nix-env --list-generations -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system 71 2017-04-02 20:01:34 72 2017-04-23 15:36:07 (current) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
