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nix profile diff-closures

Show the closure difference between each version of a profile.

Warning

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

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

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  • --refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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