nix3-profile-history(1)

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version 2.35.3 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 nix3-profile-history(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the General Commands Manual and it's literally called nix3-profile-history(1) — say hi to her, she's iconic.

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ — this program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. So like, don't get too attached to the exact vibes, she might change her outfit on you. 🔮

✨ Name ✨

nix profile history — show all versions of a profile 🌸

🦋 Synopsis 🦋

nix profile history [option…]

🎀 Examples 🎀

  • Show the changes between each version of your default profile:
# nix profile history
Version 508 (2020-04-10):
flake:nixpkgs#legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.awscli: ∅ -> 1.17.13

Version 509 (2020-05-16) <- 508:
flake:nixpkgs#legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.awscli: 1.17.13 -> 1.18.211

like look at her go. so satisfying. 💅

💜 Description 💜

This command shows what packages were added, removed or upgraded between subsequent versions of a profile. 📈

Important tea though: it only shows top-level packages, not dependencies. if you want the dependency lore too, use nix profile diff-closures.

The addition of a package to a profile is denoted by the string ∅ -> version, whereas the removal is denoted by version -> ∅. so like, ∅ is the ghost of packages past. 💀✨

👑 Options 👑

  • --profile path — the profile to operate on. that's the one, that's the girl.

🌈 Common evaluation options 🌈

  • --arg name expr — pass the value expr as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --arg-from-file name path — pass the contents of file path as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --arg-from-stdin name — pass the contents of stdin as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --argstr name string — pass the string string as the argument name to Nix functions.
  • --debugger — start an interactive environment if evaluation fails. like a little emergency sleepover for your errors. 🫶
  • --eval-store store-url — the URL of the Nix store to use for evaluation, i.e. to store derivations (.drv files) and inputs referenced by them.
  • --impure — allow access to mutable paths and repositories. living dangerously, love that for you. 😳
  • --include, -I path — add path to search path entries used to resolve lookup paths.
    • This option may be given multiple times. 🔁
    • Paths added through -I take precedence over the nix-path configuration setting and the NIX_PATH environment variable. she's got main character energy and she cuts the line. 👑
  • --override-flake original-ref resolved-ref — override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref. it's giving set-a-redirect.
  • --debug — set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
  • --log-format format — set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
  • --print-build-logs, -L — print full build logs on standard error.
  • --quiet — decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh 🤫
  • --verbose, -v — increase the logging verbosity level. tell me EVERYTHING 🗣️

🧚 Miscellaneous global options 🧚

  • --help — show usage information.
  • --offline — disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
  • --option name value — set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
  • --refresh — consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
  • --repair — during evaluation, rewrite missing or corrupted files in the Nix store. During building, rebuild missing or corrupted store paths.
  • --version — show version information.
📝 Note — see man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.

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