Technical Notes

Manpages - nix3-profile-rollback.1

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

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Name

nix profile rollback - roll back to the previous version or a specified version of a profile

Synopsis

nix profile rollback [/option/…]

Examples

  • Roll back your default profile to the previous version:
# nix profile rollback
switching profile from version 519 to 518
  • Switch your default profile to version 510:
# nix profile rollback --to 510
switching profile from version 518 to 510

Description

This command switches a profile to the most recent version older than the currently active version, or if --to N is given, to version N of the profile. To see the available versions of a profile, use nix profile history.

Options

  • --dry-run Show what this command would do without doing it.
  • --profile path The profile to operate on.
  • --to version The profile version to roll back to.

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  • --refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.