diff --git a/guix/profiles.scm b/guix/profiles.scm
index aa88b849e1..18733a6664 100644
--- a/guix/profiles.scm
+++ b/guix/profiles.scm
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
             profile-derivation
             generation-number
             generation-numbers
+            profile-generations
             previous-generation-number
             generation-time
             generation-file-name))
@@ -561,6 +562,13 @@ former profiles were found."
                 profiles)
            <))))
 
+(define (profile-generations profile)
+  "Return a list of PROFILE's generations."
+  (let ((generations (generation-numbers profile)))
+    (if (equal? generations '(0))
+        '()
+        generations)))
+
 (define (previous-generation-number profile number)
   "Return the number of the generation before generation NUMBER of
 PROFILE, or 0 if none exists.  It could be NUMBER - 1, but it's not the