Guillaume Le Vaillant writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Hello! I wonder what others do to delete their system profile >> generations? Here are some paths I know about. >> >> Path one: using the command line manually >> >> # Look at which profiles are available >> ls -l /var/guix/profiles/ >> # Remove them manually >> rm /var/guix/profiles/system-{9,10,11}-link >> >> Path two: using emacs, but you gotta do it as root so: >> >> # start up emacs as root, with the system generations listed: >> sudo -E emacs -nw -q --eval "(progn (require 'guix) >> (guix-system-generations))" >> >> # Now you can browse the generations with more information available, >> # decide with a bit more care which ones to remove. >> # Mark each one you want to remove with "D", and delete with "x". >> >> Is there a better way? What do others do? It doesn't seem there's a >> good way to delete from my current emacs session because it requires >> root privileges. >> >> guix-mode remains great, btw! >> >> - Chris > > There is the "guix system delete-generations ..." command which I think > does what you're looking for.
Ah, I didn't know about that command somehow! Thank you!
