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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-04-06 22:29:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-04-10 17:09:47 +0200 |
| commit | bacf980c76c94e7bda86220ca4bf662d0e34a45a (patch) | |
| tree | cc5a7f09074b6b9d26e017d1a6d3c532722968cd /doc | |
| parent | 72eda0624be89ed18302fd7d7f22976071ab020c (diff) | |
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guix gc: Add '--list-roots'.
* guix/scripts/gc.scm (show-help, %options): Add '--list-roots'.
(guix-gc)[list-roots]: New procedure.
Handle '--list-roots'.
* tests/guix-gc.sh: Test it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix gc): Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 2f9fcbe3bf..2345617b2e 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3385,7 +3385,7 @@ deleted. The set of garbage collector roots (``GC roots'' for short) includes default user profiles; by default, the symlinks under @file{/var/guix/gcroots} represent these GC roots. New GC roots can be added with @command{guix build --root}, for example (@pxref{Invoking -guix build}). +guix build}). The @command{guix gc --list-roots} command lists them. Prior to running @code{guix gc --collect-garbage} to make space, it is often useful to remove old generations from user profiles; that way, old @@ -3451,6 +3451,10 @@ This prints nothing unless the daemon was started with @option{--cache-failures} (@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon, @option{--cache-failures}}). +@item --list-roots +List the GC roots owned by the user; when run as root, list @emph{all} the GC +roots. + @item --clear-failures Remove the specified store items from the failed-build cache. |