[Spacewalk-list] inability to completely purge orphaned packages

[Andy Ingham]

Thanks, Jan, for the reply.

I eventually got things purged, but unfortunately don't recall exactly how
I did it.

Andy

On 3/22/13 11:37 AM, "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:02:29PM +0000, Andy Ingham wrote:
> Hello again list --
> 
> I'm trying to use rhnpush to add a couple packages to a custom channel.
>I
> initially created a channel, added the packages and then (since I needed
> to define a different parent) deleted the channel, leaving the packages
> orphaned.  I have (1) used the GUI to locate and remove the packages, and
> (2) run the following:  spacewalk-data-fsck -v --remove

Did you verify that they indeed got removed from /var/satellite?

> Despite these attempts, each time I try to re-add the packages to the new
> channel (with correct parentage) I get the following errors:
> 
> [root ~] $ rhnpush --nosig --channel=fuqua-rhnpush-centos5-x86_64
> --server=http://localhost/APP --dir=/opt/installs/rhnpush_stage/x86_64 -v
> Connecting to http://localhost/APP
> 
> Package /opt/installs/rhnpush_stage/x86_64/jdk-7u15-linux-x64.rpm already
> exists on the RHN Server-- Skipping Upload....
> Package /opt/installs/rhnpush_stage/x86_64/jdk-6u41-linux-amd64.rpm
> already exists on the RHN Server-- Skipping UploadŠ.

Is it possible that the packages indeed already exist on the server,
just maybe with different signature (signed with beta key or
something)?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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