[Spacewalk-list] Deleting published Errata deletes associated Packages

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:58:23 +0200
Jan Hutař <jhutar at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:32:16 +0200 Franky Van Liedekerke
> <liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:23:47 +0200
> > Steve Meier <email at steve-meier.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > since I am no longer the only one who is experiencing this I
> > > wanted to ask if this is intended behavior or maybe just a
> > > side-effect of a key constraint:
> > > 
> > > When I delete a published Errata (for CentOS) from my server
> > > it seems that the packages, which were referenced in this
> > > Errata get deleted. Why would Spacewalk do this?
> > > 
> > > I can run spacewalk-repo-sync to get the packages back
> > > afterwards but I don't think that's how it's supposed to
> > > work. Any feedback would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > >   Steve
> > 
> > For now my workaround is to first delete the packages from the
> > published errata and only then delete the errata.
> > 
> > Franky
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Do you see package gets really deleted
> (including /var/satellite), or is it just dissociated from the
> channel (an you can see it in Channels -> Manage Software
> Channels -> Manage Software Packages)?
> 
> Regards,
> Jan
> 

Apparently I failed to respond to this (a year ago), but since it is
still happening with spacewalk 1.9: the packages are just dissociated
from the channel.

Franky