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

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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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


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