Manpages - nix3-profile-diff-closures.1

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This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

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Name

nix profile diff-closures - show the closure difference between each version of a profile

Synopsis

nix profile diff-closures [/option/…]

Examples

Show what changed between each version of the NixOS system profile:

# nix profile diff-closures --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
Version 13 -> 14:
acpi-call: 2020-04-07-5.8.13 → 2020-04-07-5.8.14
aws-sdk-cpp: -6723.1 KiB
…

Version 14 -> 15:
acpi-call: 2020-04-07-5.8.14 → 2020-04-07-5.8.16
attica: -996.2 KiB
breeze-icons: -78713.5 KiB
brotli: 1.0.7 → 1.0.9, +44.2 KiB

Description

This command shows the difference between the closures of subsequent versions of a profile. See nix store diff-closures for details.

Options

--profile path The profile to operate on.

Logging-related options

--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.
--verbose / -v Increase the logging verbosity level.

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--refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
--version Show version information. Note See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.