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[wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix system remove-generation

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Package: guix;

Reported by: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 12:03:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix system
 remove-generation
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:02:13 +0100

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Hi

I would like to make a patch for this if somebody is willing to mentor me.

The idea is

 * removing symlinks-procedure
 * argument to remove x old generations.
     o ex guix system remove-generation --keep-2
       this would remove all system generations besides the latest 2.
 * warning if user tries to remove so that less than 2 genererations
   resides
 * hinting to run guix gc

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia


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bug#33274; Package guix. (Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:38:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 33274 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33274 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33274: [wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix
 system remove-generation
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 15:37:22 -0500

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On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 01:02:13PM +0100, swedebugia wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to make a patch for this if somebody is willing to mentor me.
> 
> The idea is
> 
>  * removing symlinks-procedure
>  * argument to remove x old generations.
>      o ex guix system remove-generation --keep-2
>        this would remove all system generations besides the latest 2.
>  * warning if user tries to remove so that less than 2 genererations
>    resides
>  * hinting to run guix gc

This is a longstanding missing feature. A patch was discussed a while
ago:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00194.html

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33274-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33274: [wishlist] Removing old system generation via guix
 system remove-generation
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:54:04 -0400

This feature was added in da551107129d22dfb2a4278a55b702a7340e7f51
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:24:08 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 7 days ago.

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