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

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 â 2020-04-07-5.8.14
aws-sdk-cpp: -6723.1 KiB
â¦

Version 14 -> 15:
acpi-call: 2020-04-07-5.8.14 â 2020-04-07-5.8.16
attica: -996.2 KiB
breeze-icons: -78713.5 KiB
brotli: 1.0.7 â 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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.


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