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| author | Ricardo M. Correia <rcorreia@wizy.org> | 2014-03-11T20·47+0100 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-03-29T23·54+0100 |
| commit | 7ef7597f71b282265a9f79afe4608cd3b1bc4127 (patch) | |
| tree | 76358e2bb987f7ca996b4330e9895eeed9053994 /doc/manual/nix-env.xml | |
| parent | 59c90196850b6ac8c110e54c7f03d6417ed9bf61 (diff) | |
nix-env: Add support for --delete-generations 15d
It will delete all generations older than the specified number of days.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/nix-env.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-env.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-env.xml b/doc/manual/nix-env.xml index 92becccba706..3bfcb15dbac2 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-env.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-env.xml @@ -1167,10 +1167,12 @@ $ nix-env --list-generations <refsection><title>Description</title> <para>This operation deletes the specified generations of the current -profile. The generations can be a list of generation numbers, or the +profile. The generations can be a list of generation numbers, the special value <literal>old</literal> to delete all non-current -generations. Periodically deleting old generations is important to -make garbage collection effective.</para> +generations, or a value such as <literal>30d</literal> to delete all +non-current generations older than the specified number of days. +Periodically deleting old generations is important to make garbage +collection effective.</para> </refsection> @@ -1179,6 +1181,8 @@ make garbage collection effective.</para> <screen> $ nix-env --delete-generations 3 4 8 +$ nix-env --delete-generations 30d + $ nix-env -p other_profile --delete-generations old</screen> </refsection> |