GNU bug report logs - #33374
[PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system generations

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Package: guix-patches;

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

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>

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Report forwarded to guix-patches <at> gnu.org:
bug#33374; Package guix-patches. (Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:22:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to guix-patches <at> gnu.org. (Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:22:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org, Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>,
 Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system generations
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:21:24 +0100
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Note the FIXME.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500
From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
CC: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, Guix-Help <help-guix <at> gnu.org>

>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:

snip

>> When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
>>
>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>>      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>>      grub.cfg
>> (4) guix gc
> This would be nice to have in the manual I think.

Would you like to propose a patch?

     Mark
[0001-doc-guix-Inform-users-about-deleting-old-system-gene.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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Message #8 received at 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> ambrevar.xyz, mhw <at> netris.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33374] [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system
 generations
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:24:00 +0100
On 2018-11-14 09:21, swedebugia wrote:
> Note the FIXME.
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500
> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
> To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
> CC: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, Guix-Help <help-guix <at> gnu.org>
> 
>>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> 
> snip
> 
>>> When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
>>>
>>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>>>      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>>>      grub.cfg
>>> (4) guix gc
>> This would be nice to have in the manual I think.
> 
> Would you like to propose a patch?
> 
>       Mark

Ping

-- 
Cheers Swedebugia




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Message #11 received at 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Cc: mhw <at> netris.org, 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> ambrevar.xyz
Subject: Re: bug#33374: [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system
 generations
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:56:46 +0200
Hi,

Look at old patches, I hit this patch#33374:

    <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33374>


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 09:21, swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net> wrote:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500
> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
> To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
> CC: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, Guix-Help <help-guix <at> gnu.org>
>
>>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
> snip
>
>>> When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
>>>
>>> (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>>> (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>>>      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>>> (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>>>      grub.cfg
>>> (4) guix gc
>> This would be nice to have in the manual I think.
>
> Would you like to propose a patch?
>
>      Mark

From my point of the view, this submission should be for the Cookbook.
WDYT?


Cheers,
simon




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bug#33374; Package guix-patches. (Thu, 19 May 2022 21:37:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #14 received at 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Cc: mhw <at> netris.org, 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> ambrevar.xyz
Subject: Re: bug#33374: [PATCH] doc: guix: Inform about deleting old system
 generations
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 23:28:20 +0200
Hi,

On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 at 13:56, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Look at old patches, I hit this patch#33374:
>
>     <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33374>
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 09:21, swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:13:43 -0500

> From my point of the view, this submission should be for the Cookbook.

Well, no answer.  Therefore, I am closing.  If I am missing, feel free
to reopen.


Cheers,
simon




bug closed, send any further explanations to 33374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net> Request was from zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 19 May 2022 21:37:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:24:08 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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