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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-27 17:58:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-27 17:58:46 +0100 |
| commit | 82fe08ed207a17c51370dc90e965c15ee9db9235 (patch) | |
| tree | f9a06dfc729e5ce0af5013fa1370b875b7e3014f /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | d9307267b3b4a87391e33daacef162745f057c3d (diff) | |
| download | guix-82fe08ed207a17c51370dc90e965c15ee9db9235.tar.gz | |
guix-package: Always use the next number for new generations.
Suggested by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00325.html>. * guix-package.in (latest-profile-number): Remove. (switch-symlinks): New procedure. (roll-back)[switch-link]: Use it. (guix-package)[process-actions]: Always choose NUMBER + 1 for the new profile. Use `switch-symlinks' instead of `symlink'. Remove code to delete PROFILE when it exists since `switch-symlinks' has the same effect. * tests/guix-package.sh: Adjust existing `--roll-back' tests. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-package): Document this `--roll-back' behavior.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 1385cd4532..52c992044b 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -514,6 +514,10 @@ installed packages, the profile is made to point to the @dfn{empty profile}, also known as @dfn{profile zero}---i.e., it contains no files apart from its own meta-data. +Installing, removing, or upgrading packages from a generation that has +been rolled back to overwrites previous future generations. Thus, the +history of a profile's generations is always linear. + @item --profile=@var{profile} @itemx -p @var{profile} Use @var{profile} instead of the user's default profile. |