[Nix-dev] How to delete old generations and GC them, without GCing anything else?

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 03/06/2016 01:10 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> I want to remove old system generations and GC the packages, _without_ removing
> anything else but these generations and their packages.

I would `nix-store --gc --print-dead` before and after deleting the
generations, and then I would use `comm` to compute the difference and
remove it by `nix-store --gc --delete`.

That is, if I understood your intention correctly. It seems an unusual
thing to want.

--Vladimir


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