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diff --git a/src/nix/profile.md b/src/nix/profile.md index bf61ef4b9..ffce5ad65 100644 --- a/src/nix/profile.md +++ b/src/nix/profile.md @@ -7,100 +7,10 @@ profile is a set of packages that can be installed and upgraded independently from each other. Nix profiles are versioned, allowing them to be rolled back easily. -# Default profile +# Files -The default profile used by `nix profile` is `$HOME/.nix-profile`, -which, if it does not exist, is created as a symlink to -`/nix/var/nix/profiles/default` if Nix is invoked by the -`root` user, or `${XDG_STATE_HOME-$HOME/.local/state}/nix/profiles/profile` otherwise. +See [the "User Profiles" documentation page](@docroot@/command-ref/files/user-profiles.md). -You can specify another profile location using `--profile` *path*. - -# Filesystem layout - -Profiles are versioned as follows. When using profile *path*, *path* -is a symlink to *path*`-`*N*, where *N* is the current *version* of -the profile. In turn, *path*`-`*N* is a symlink to a path in the Nix -store. For example: - -```console -$ ls -l ~alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile* -lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice users 14 Nov 25 14:35 /home/alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile -> profile-7-link -lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice users 51 Oct 28 16:18 /home/alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-5-link -> /nix/store/q69xad13ghpf7ir87h0b2gd28lafjj1j-profile -lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice users 51 Oct 29 13:20 /home/alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-6-link -> /nix/store/6bvhpysd7vwz7k3b0pndn7ifi5xr32dg-profile -lrwxrwxrwx 1 alice users 51 Nov 25 14:35 /home/alice/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-7-link -> /nix/store/mp0x6xnsg0b8qhswy6riqvimai4gm677-profile -``` - -Each of these symlinks is a root for the Nix garbage collector. - -The contents of the store path corresponding to each version of the -profile is a tree of symlinks to the files of the installed packages, -e.g. - -```console -$ ll -R ~eelco/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-7-link/ -/home/eelco/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-7-link/: -total 20 -dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 bin --r--r--r-- 2 root root 1402 Jan 1 1970 manifest.json -dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 share - -/home/eelco/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-7-link/bin: -total 20 -lrwxrwxrwx 5 root root 79 Jan 1 1970 chromium -> /nix/store/ijm5k0zqisvkdwjkc77mb9qzb35xfi4m-chromium-86.0.4240.111/bin/chromium -lrwxrwxrwx 7 root root 87 Jan 1 1970 spotify -> /nix/store/w9182874m1bl56smps3m5zjj36jhp3rn-spotify-1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15/bin/spotify -lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 79 Jan 1 1970 zoom-us -> /nix/store/wbhg2ga8f3h87s9h5k0slxk0m81m4cxl-zoom-us-5.3.469451.0927/bin/zoom-us - -/home/eelco/.local/state/nix/profiles/profile-7-link/share/applications: -total 12 -lrwxrwxrwx 4 root root 120 Jan 1 1970 chromium-browser.desktop -> /nix/store/4cf803y4vzfm3gyk3vzhzb2327v0kl8a-chromium-unwrapped-86.0.4240.111/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop -lrwxrwxrwx 7 root root 110 Jan 1 1970 spotify.desktop -> /nix/store/w9182874m1bl56smps3m5zjj36jhp3rn-spotify-1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15/share/applications/spotify.desktop -lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 107 Jan 1 1970 us.zoom.Zoom.desktop -> /nix/store/wbhg2ga8f3h87s9h5k0slxk0m81m4cxl-zoom-us-5.3.469451.0927/share/applications/us.zoom.Zoom.desktop - -… -``` - -The file `manifest.json` records the provenance of the packages that -are installed in this version of the profile. It looks like this: - -```json -{ - "version": 1, - "elements": [ - { - "active": true, - "attrPath": "legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.zoom-us", - "originalUrl": "flake:nixpkgs", - "storePaths": [ - "/nix/store/wbhg2ga8f3h87s9h5k0slxk0m81m4cxl-zoom-us-5.3.469451.0927" - ], - "uri": "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/13d0c311e3ae923a00f734b43fd1d35b47d8943a" - }, - … - ] -} -``` - -Each object in the array `elements` denotes an installed package and -has the following fields: - -* `originalUrl`: The [flake reference](./nix3-flake.md) specified by - the user at the time of installation (e.g. `nixpkgs`). This is also - the flake reference that will be used by `nix profile upgrade`. - -* `uri`: The locked flake reference to which `originalUrl` resolved. - -* `attrPath`: The flake output attribute that provided this - package. Note that this is not necessarily the attribute that the - user specified, but the one resulting from applying the default - attribute paths and prefixes; for instance, `hello` might resolve to - `packages.x86_64-linux.hello` and the empty string to - `packages.x86_64-linux.default`. - -* `storePath`: The paths in the Nix store containing the package. - -* `active`: Whether the profile contains symlinks to the files of this - package. If set to false, the package is kept in the Nix store, but - is not "visible" in the profile's symlink tree. +This page can be viewed offline with **`man 5 nix3-user-profiles`**. )"" |