nix-super/src/nix/profile-diff-closures.md

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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.

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