Re: How to remove old (test) builds from store?

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Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> when creating packages and refining the build step by step, I end up
> with many entries in the store I do not need. When tying to delete them,
> only a few are removed and many are kept. E.g:
>
>
> # guix gc -d /gnu/store/*teensy*
> finding garbage collector roots...
> deleting `/gnu/store/…-teensy-loader-cli-2.1-1.f289b7a.drv'
> deleting `/gnu/store/…-teensy-loader-cli-2.1-1.f289b7a.tar.xz.drv'
> guix gc: error: build failed: cannot delete path
> `/gnu/store/…-teensy-loader-cli-2.1-1.f289b7a.tar.gz.drv' since it is
> still alive
> $ ls -d /gnu/store/*teensy* | wc -l
> 35
>
> The one still alive if okay, since I have an older version of this
> package installed in my current environment.
>
>
> How do I get rid of these ca. 30 outdated store items?
I think call gc for each one will work, eg:

for i in /gnu/store/*teensy*; do guix gc -d $i; done