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


              Warning
              This program is experimental 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
       o  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
       o  --profile path

          The profile to operate on.

   Logging-related options
       o  --debug

          Set the logging verbosity level to `debug'.

       o  --log-format format

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

       o  --print-build-logs / -L

          Print full build logs on standard error.

       o  --quiet

          Decrease the logging verbosity level.

       o  --verbose / -v

          Increase the logging verbosity level.

   Miscellaneous global options
       o  --help

          Show usage information.

       o  --offline

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

       o  --option name value

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

       o  --refresh

          Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

       o  --version

          Show version information.

          Note

          See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command
          line flags.

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