nix3-profile-diff-closures(1)

    Warning
    This program is experimental (@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command) 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 → 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 (nix3-store-diff-closures.md) for details.

Options

•   --profile (#opt-profile) path

    The profile to operate on.

  Logging-related options

•   --debug (#opt-debug)

    Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

•   --log-format (#opt-log-format) format

    Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

•   --print-build-logs (#opt-print-build-logs) / -L

    Print full build logs on standard error.

•   --quiet (#opt-quiet)

    Decrease the logging verbosity level.

•   --verbose (#opt-verbose) / -v

    Increase the logging verbosity level.

  Miscellaneous global options

•   --help (#opt-help)

    Show usage information.

•   --offline (#opt-offline)

    Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

•   --option (#opt-option) name value

    Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

•   --refresh (#opt-refresh)

    Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

•   --version (#opt-version)

    Show version information.

    Note

    See man nix.conf (@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags) for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.