[Spacewalk-list] Unable to Download Packages from Spacewalk Server

[Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL]

I realized what was going on finally... I had removed the packages from the
channels through the web GUI but that didn't actually remove the packages
from the database, it just unassigned the packages from the channel and kept
the entries lingering around. I finally noticed that in the package
management page, there was a giant list of unassigned packages including the
ones that I had thought I deleted.  After deleting all of those, the
spacewalk-data-fsck wasn't complaining any more and I was able to run a
repo-sync and see the packages available for download on the GUI.  

So my biggest question now is this... I want to keep my repo's relatively
light weight, with only the most recent packages available.  I.E. right now
the CentOS 5 base repo shows it has 3566 packages in it and that's all I
want to have.  When new versions of packages come out, I don't want to keep
the old ones.  I realize this can cause problems if I need to downgrade a
package if something breaks during and upgrade, however if that happens I'm
fine with re-imaging machines.  What is the best way to go about doing that?
Is there a setting somewhere that I can set to tell spacewalk not to keep
any old revisions of packages?  If not, what commands could I use to clear
the package contents in spacewalk and let it re-sync the repos on something
like a weekly basis using cron?  

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Glennie, Jonathan -
0443 - MITLL
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:39 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to Download Packages from Spacewalk
Server

I used the -r option before but it only seems to remove packages on the file
system and not entries in the database.  I gave it a try with -d and -r but
it doesn't remove entries in the database.


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Miroslav Suchý
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:52 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to Download Packages from Spacewalk
Server

On 09/27/2011 03:24 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL wrote:
> Is there a way to run the spacewalk-data-fsck command or something similar
and tell it to remove packages listed in the DB that aren't in the file
system?

# spacewalk-data-fsck --help
usage: spacewalk-data-fsck [options]

options:
  -v, --verbose      Increase verbosity
  -S, --no-size      Don't check package size
  -C, --no-checksum  Don't check package checksum
  -O, --no-nevrao    Don't check package name, epoch, version, release,
arch,
                     org
  -d, --db-only      Check only if packages from database are present on
                     filesystem
  -f, --fs-only      Check only if packages from filesystem are in the
                     database
  -r, --remove       Automaticaly remove packages from filesystem not
present
                     in database
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit

So it would be:

 spacewalk-data-fsck -d -r

-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering

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