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:-( brain didnt work.

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[โ€“] 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Best I can tell they were trying to remove all packages that depended on a specified package, but fucked up the syntax?

Apk del --purge removes a package with its dependencies. Rather than specify the package directly, they've provided the output of one command piped through another. The first command is apk info -R which would in theory give the reverse dependencies of a package, if they'd given one. The second command is an awk statement that just grabs only the first column of each line that gets piped into it. I'm not sure why it would take 60 minutes to resolve though, since I'm pretty sure apk info -R with no package specified would produce no usable output. Also, ctrl-c exists.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    apk del --purge $(apk info -R | awk '{print $1}')

    (1/243) Purging alpine-base (3.16.9-r0)

    (2/243) Purging alpine-baselayout (3.2.0-r23)

    (3/243) Purging alpine-baselayout-data (3.2.0-r23)

    (4/243) Purging apk-tools (2.12.9-r3)

    ....

    it took me that time to restore the system ...obviously not being able to boot it anymore. i feel deeply ashamed.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You shouldnโ€™t feel shame. Youโ€™re just part of the club now. It seems to me that borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage

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  • [โ€“] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage

    I'll borrow that mate!

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