[Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

[Marcus Moeller]

2010/11/16 Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:24:26PM -0500, Ronald Parker wrote:
>>
>> >> Deleting packages in 25 steps might take a long time if you have about 60'000 :/
>>
>> > I hacked up a script which pulled the orphan package IDs out of the database
>> > directly then deleted them one by one with the removePackage API call. If you
>> > left it running overnight it did the business. Unfortunately, I cannot find it, but it
>> > didn't take very long to write so maybe you could explore this approach.
>>
>> I'm in a similar situation. Can anyone point to some documentation for the API
>> so I can look into this approach?
>
> On you Spacewalk, go to
>
>        https://FQDN/rhn/apidoc/handlers/PackagesHandler.jsp#removePackage
>
> Hope this helps,

You still have to hack orphan package IDs out of the database directly
which is quite annoying.

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Greets
Marcus