<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Eh, I just ended up reinstalling on a new vm. Whenever you run the 'yum install spacewalk-oracle' on a clean system, you end up downloading 300 - 400 dependencies. I'd rather not mess with that, although I was considering it.<div> </div><div>Perhaps next time, I'll keep the list of all the spacewalk dependencies and then uninstalling all those rpms and see what directories/files get left behind or need to get cleaned up. Maybe that is the way to go the next time. <div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: GregWojtak@quickenloans.com > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:23:32 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Recommended way to uninstall Spacewalk > > I'd try > > yum remove spacewalk\* rhncfg\* osad yum-rhn-plugin rhn\* > > Be careful with the wildcards though. You could verify which packages it will remove before actually doing it. > > Greg Wojtak > Sr. Unix Systems Engineer > Office: (313) 373-4306 > Cell: (734) 718-8472 > > > From: visinix the great <visinix@gmail.com<mailto:visinix@gmail.com>> > Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>> > Date: Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:37 AM > To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Recommended way to uninstall Spacewalk > > I assume your talking about the spacewalk client? > > If you are, doing as you suggested is just that simple. I have done this a few times, and I remove all things spacewalk. > > rpm -qa |grep spacewalk > > This will get you all the spacewalk specific stuff. Replace spacewalk with osad if you have that part of the setup in place as well. > > I believe that yum will remove all the files and configs so long as they are stock / default. If you made a change they will hand around. On reinstall, it should preserve these files. Look in /etc/sysconfig/rhn for most of these. > > In any case, if you are just reinstalling, this should do it for you, its worked enough for my needs. > > Charlie > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Jan Hutaų <jhutar@redhat.com<mailto:jhutar@redhat.com>> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:53:41 -0400 Giovanni Torres > <giovtorres@hotmail.com<mailto:giovtorres@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > > Is there a "clean" or recommended way to uninstall spacewalk > > on a system? Is it a matter of just doing yum remove > > spacewalk* and perhaps going back and cleaning up some > > directories if they didn't get deleted? Ultimately, I need to > > uninstall and then reinstall spacewalk. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks,Giovanni > > Hello, > no way I know about. You can uninstall all package-names you see > in Spacewalk installation repo, but that will not help with > dependencies which were brought from your operating system repo. > Also some config files might stay on your system (because of > some hidden bugs). > > If you want to install Spacewalk on such a system again, I do > not recommend. Please reinstall the system. > > Regards, > Jan > > > > -- > Jan Hutar Systems Management QA > jhutar@redhat.com<mailto:jhutar@redhat.com> Red Hat, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list </div></div> </div></body> </html>