Restore minimal system about kiss

[Vouivre]

Ok, it's time to package more software to see if it works. Thanks!

[dylanaraps]

In essence, the ability to revert to the packages only in the chroot?

[Vouivre]

Yes.

[dylanaraps]

This script can be used:

#!/bin/sh -ef
#
# Disable word-splittng warnings as they're safe here.
# shellcheck disable=SC2046
#
# kiss-reset: Remove all packages except for the base.

set -- \
    $(kiss l | while read -r pkg _; do
        case $pkg in
            baselayout|binutils|bison|busybox|bzip2|curl|flex|gcc|git|\
            gzip|kiss|libelf|libressl|linux-headers|m4|make|mandoc|musl|\
            perl|pkgconf|rsync|xz|zlib) ;;

            *) printf '%s\n' "$pkg" ;;
        esac
    done)

[ "$1" ] && {
    printf 'WARNING: This will remove \033[1m%s\033[m package(s).\n' "$#"
    printf 'Continue? [Enter/Ctrl+C]\n'
    read -r _ && KISS_FORCE=1 kiss r "$@"
}

Please let me know if this satisfies your needs and I'll add it to kiss-utils.

[Vouivre]

Here is what I got:

./kiss-reset.sh
WARNING: This will remove 57 package(s).
Continue? [Enter/Ctrl+C]

-> Removing packages
-> zathura-pdf-poppler Removed successfully
-> zathura Removed successfully
-> poppler-glib Removed successfully
-> libjpeg-turbo Removed successfully
-> yasm Removed successfully
-> girara Removed successfully
-> json-c Removed successfully
-> gtk+3 Removed successfully
-> pango Removed successfully
-> libXft Removed successfully
-> libepoxy Removed successfully
-> libXinerama Removed successfully
-> libXi Removed successfully
-> libXcursor Removed successfully
-> libXcomposite Removed successfully
-> gdk-pixbuf Removed successfully
-> shared-mime-info Removed successfully
!> libxml2 Package is required by 'llvm', 'mesa'

I don't know in which order packages are removed, but it will be probably complicated with dependencies. I could imagine the following:

• if a package can't be removed because of depencies, the removal can be skipped. After that the user has to run the script once again.
• the goal is to restore a minimal system and we know it should work. So why not using:

     read -r _ && KISS_FORCE=1 kiss r "$@"

I tried with KISS_FORCE, for the moment I'm able to chroot in my system. I will do more testing by writing other packages.

[dylanaraps]

KISS_FORCE=1 should work fine. Will also do some testing. 👍

[dylanaraps]

Closing as KISS_FORCE=1 works fine. :)

I'll move this to a kiss-util or the Wiki sometime today.