[Spacewalk-list] Purging not related packages

[Ciro Iriarte]

2012/12/17 Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>

> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> % 2012/12/14 Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
> %
> % > Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> % > % Hi, give some recomendations in the list I decided to separate some
> % > % packages from the main channel and create sub channels for them.
> % > %
> % > % For example, all official RHEL packages (from differente RHN
> Channels)
> % > % would go in one channel, the same for SLES but third party package
> should
> % > % go in different sub-channels (epel, obs, jpackage, etc).
> % > %
> % > % The thing is that after excluding the EPEL repository the main
> % > RHEL5/RHEL6
> % > % channels still include the EPEL packages.What's the best way to
> purge the
> % > % no longer related packages from the channel?.
> % >
> % > I'm afraid the only way is to create your own script which will remove
> % > packages via API.
> % >
> % > Regards,
> % >
> % > --
> % > Michael Mráka
> % > Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> % >
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> %
> % Hmm, what about a one-shot command to delete all the packages from that
> % channel?, I'm ok with downloading all the required packages again in this
> % case....
>
> Then you can remove all packages from channel from in WebUI, go to
>  Channels >
>   Manage Software Channels >
>    your_channel_name >
>     Packages >
>      List / Remove >
>       Select All >
>        Confirm Removal >
>         Remove
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>

Thanks Michael, that did it. The weird thing is that /var/satellite didn't
shrink at all...

Regards,

-- 
Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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