GNU bug report logs - #19978
It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations

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Package: guix;

Reported by: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)

Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 21:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:41:20 +0100

The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
recovery from that either.

Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
--force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.

Taylan
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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer")
Cc: 19978-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19978: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:59:36 +0200

taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
> current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
> recovery from that either.
>
> Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
> interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
> --force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.

I believe d26eb84 fixes that.

There’s no --force flag, but I think it’s unnecessary: it’s always
possible to rollback to generation 0 and from there remove whatever.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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