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| author | toonn <toonn@toonn.io> | 2019-08-29 13:46:38 +0200 |
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| committer | toonn <toonn@toonn.io> | 2019-08-29 13:56:21 +0200 |
| commit | 5bdac86be2eb6d541784c4f149bfa06b59ef63a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 19e46aad0e9999298a2821689485134d288e477e /doc/manual | |
| parent | 1dbaf119486fecbdf57ecc2f877307030b665f69 (diff) | |
Reword to clarify newer generations are left alone
My attempt at clarifying the docs resulted in a false explanation. This
is now fixed and I added an example to eliminate all possible confusion.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml index 9d13d3014..c8c01f9a4 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml @@ -1371,7 +1371,10 @@ 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 number of generations. +<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> |