picnoir
/
nix-gh
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Releases Wiki Activity

Merge pull request #3048 from toonn/nix-env_doc 

Fix nix-env documentation for --delete-generations
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2019-08-29 15:22:01 +02:00 committed by GitHub
parent a2c4fcd5e9 5bdac86be2
commit 8478c99d09
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: 4AEE18F83AFDEB23
1 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

11
doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
View File

@ -1370,10 +1370,13 @@ profile. The generations can be a list of generation numbers, the
special value <literal>old</literal> to delete all non-current
generations, a value such as <literal>30d</literal> to delete all
generations older than the specified number of days (except for the
generation that was active at that point in time), or a value such as.
<literal>+5</literal> to only keep the specified items older than the
current generation. Periodically deleting old generations is important
to make garbage collection effective.</para>
generation that was active at that point in time), or a value such as
<literal>+5</literal> to keep the last <literal>5</literal> generations
ignoring any newer than current, e.g., if <literal>30</literal> is the current
generation <literal>+5</literal> will delete generation <literal>25</literal>
and all older generations.
Periodically deleting old generations is important to make garbage collection
effective.</para>
</refsection>