[Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

[Colin Coe]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Marcus Moeller <mail at marcus-moeller.de> wrote:
> Dear Jan.
>
>>> > 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.
>>
>> Obviously, patches welcome.
>
> Please note that not all of us are coders. What I can do is to report
> bugs and to help improving the product that way (as I always did in
> the past).
>
> If there will be any form of interest in setting up a QA process I am
> also willed to help.
>
> --
> Greets
> Marcus
>

Hi all

I should be able to come up with a 'packages.findOrphans' API call.
It would only be able to be run by a Satellite admin.

Jan, would that be acceptable from a security/maintenance perspective?

Marcus, would that help solve the problem in the original post?

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