nix3-profile-diff-closures(1) General Commands Manual nix3-profile-diff-closures(1)

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

nix profile diff-closures - show the closure difference between each version of a profile

nix profile diff-closures [option…]

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

This command shows the difference between the closures of subsequent versions of a profile. See nix store diff-closures for details.

--profile path
The profile to operate on.
--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.

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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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