Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?

[Alex Kost]

Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote:

> Heya all,
>
> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't*
> your system or default user profile.
>
>   guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello
>
> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around.
>
> David seemed to think that maybe the profile link would be under
> /var/guix/profiles/
[...]
> What's keeping that profile around?  Will it ever get gc'ed?  Is it
> somehow recorded in Guix's state files?

Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/.  If you remove old generations, they
will be removed from gcroots/auto next time you run "guix gc".

-- 
Alex