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.
Ahhh... I had wondered if issuing the info command without a package would issue for all packages, but the docs seemed to suggest otherwise. So, pretty much an rm -rf / then.
it was late. i "thought" i might free up space inside that alpine lxc. i wasnt. i just like a moran wiped all the apps. then went to bed. i cant even recall what i thought would prevent this from destroying everything. at least it wasnt a closed OS...that would have cost me 51yrs.
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What does it do?
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.
it took me that time to restore the system ...obviously not being able to boot it anymore. i feel deeply ashamed.
You shouldn’t feel shame. You’re just part of the club now. It seems to me that borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage
I'll borrow that mate!
Screw your system up it's the best way to learn is how I've always felt
true. but man it was late so like at the worst time... just hate it so much when that happens.
Ahhh... I had wondered if issuing the info command without a package would issue for all packages, but the docs seemed to suggest otherwise. So, pretty much an rm -rf / then.
yes. :-(
Oh well, best way to learn something new, eh?
Thank you. Not familiar with apk, only apt. Oof.
I'm not that familiar myself, had to check the docs for most of that.
It produces a meme?
What were you actually trying to do
it was late. i "thought" i might free up space inside that alpine lxc. i wasnt. i just like a moran wiped all the apps. then went to bed. i cant even recall what i thought would prevent this from destroying everything. at least it wasnt a closed OS...that would have cost me 51yrs.
Happens to the best of us. I learned early that Timeshift (On mint) was my best friend.