[Spacewalk-list] Channel/repository deleted but packages remain.

[Soham Chakraborty]

Not to nitpick did you run with --remove? In my case having --remove
worked. Probably stupid suggestion but...

On 3 Mar 2017 19:51, "Dimitri Yioulos" <dyioulos at netatlantic.com> wrote:

Michael,

Thanks for the response.

I did run spacewalk-data-fsck.  The channels were for rpmforge which, as we
know, has ridden off into the sunset.  Perhaps I didn't remove the
channels/repositories/packages in proper order?  What I ended up doing is
deleting the packages manually e.g. " find . -type f -name '*rf.noarch.rpm'
-exec rm {} +".  After I did that, I ran spacewalk-data-fsck, but got no
output.  I know I should rtfm, but I'll ask anyway - what's the proper way
to remove a channel and its associated packages?

Thanks again.

Dimitri

editorial:  Rpmforge, originally created in 2002 by Dag Wieers, and known
as the Dag RPM Repository for a long time, was the first non-Redhat
repository.  I used it from its inception, and it saved my bacon lots of
times.  Thanks, Dag!


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 4:30 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Channel/repository deleted but packages
remain.

> Hello, all.
>
> I recently did some maintenance to our Spacewalk 2.6 server, which
included removing some no longer needed channels, and their associated
repositories.  I thought this would also remove the packages associated
with the channels.  Wrong.  The packages are still on the server, and
running my standard clean-up tools (swalk-clean-old-packages.py and
spacewalk-data-fsck) aren't removing them.  I'd like to remove these
packages and reclaim disk space.  How can I accomplish this?
>
> With thanks.

spacewalk-data-fsck --remove should do it. If not then packages are still
referenced from the database. Maybe they were linked to more channels and
one of them is still alive?

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat

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