On 2018-12-25 19:49, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
Why duplicate lines here?
They are not duplicated, the arguments are
+profile
+(string-append (config-directory #:ensure? #f)
"/current")))
so one is for the user profile, one is
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 pac
> I think we're still waiting for Pierre to send his latest patch. If the
> text really is too long, perhaps we can provide concrete examples, a
> sentence explaining what they do, and a link to the manual, where we put
> the slightly more verbose explanation. I think the text so far is OK,
> bu
Agreed "checkout" is not very precise, but can anyone come up with a better
term?
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Pierre Neidhardt writes:
>> OK. Since that example deletes profile generations, Can we just say
>> "profile generations" instead of "checkouts"? The latter makes me think
>> of a Git repository checkout. Maybe the phrase "cleaning up old
>> profiles" would be good enough, since we put a clear
Hi Pierre,
Thank you for your patience!
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "Guix checkouts". Do you mean a Git
>> checkout of Guix's Git repository? If so, why would deleting it help?
>
> Well, I meant what I wrote in the example below
OK. Since that example deletes p
Ping?
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> I'm not sure what you mean by "Guix checkouts". Do you mean a Git
> checkout of Guix's Git repository? If so, why would deleting it help?
Well, I meant what I wrote in the example below
> guix package --profile=~s --delete-generations=1m
> ...
> (string-append (config-directory #:ensure? #f)
Hi Pierre,
Awesome, thank you for the patch!
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> -generations and collecting garbage, along these lines:
> +generations, deleting old Guix checkouts and collecting garbage, along these
> +lines:
I'm not sure what you mean by "Guix checkouts". Do you mean a Git
checkout
And here is my proposed patch. It's such a little thing, I'm posting here for
context, I'll merge if no one is opposed to it.
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From: Pierre Neidhardt
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 14:33:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] guix scripts: Mention G
I'll send a patch then.
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Thanks for your feedback, Chris!
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Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> I wonder if we should not document this more. Maybe have "guix" display
> extensive information about the profiles in /var/guix/profiles?
> When the guix store runs low on disk space, Guix currently suggests to
> run "guix gc" and all. I think we should suggest the ab
Hi!
I had a look at /var/guix/profiles and noticed that there were some forgotten
links
there. For instance, of some custom profiles I didn't use and all.
After removing those links (sudo rm ...), guix gc could free a lot of
space!
I also noticed that "guix pull" generations were accumulating,
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