lix/scripts/nix-collect-garbage.in

#! @perl@ -w @perlFlags@

use strict;
use Nix::Config;

my $profilesDir = "@localstatedir@/nix/profiles";


# Process the command line arguments.
my @args = ();
my $removeOld = 0;

for my $arg (@ARGV) {
    if ($arg eq "--delete-old" || $arg eq "-d") {
        $removeOld = 1;
    } else {
        push @args, $arg;
    }
}


# If `-d' was specified, remove all old generations of all profiles.
# Of course, this makes rollbacks to before this point in time
# impossible.

sub removeOldGenerations;
sub removeOldGenerations {
    my $dir = shift;

    my $dh;
    opendir $dh, $dir or die;

    foreach my $name (sort (readdir $dh)) {
        next if $name eq "." || $name eq "..";
        $name = $dir . "/" . $name;
        if (-l $name && (readlink($name) =~ /link/)) {
            print STDERR "removing old generations of profile $name\n";
            system("$Nix::Config::binDir/nix-env", "-p", $name, "--delete-generations", "old");
        }
        elsif (! -l $name && -d $name) {
            removeOldGenerations $name;
        }
    }
    
    closedir $dh or die;
}

removeOldGenerations $profilesDir if $removeOld;


# Run the actual garbage collector.
exec "$Nix::Config::binDir/nix-store", "--gc", @args;