[Pulp-list] Orphaned Packages

[Jason L Connor]

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 17:02 -0500, Todd B Sanders wrote:
> On 01/13/2011 03:50 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
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> > Take the following scenario:
> > - - Create a repo and synchronize it. It brings in packages A, B, and C.
> > - - Delete the repo.
> > - - Do a `pulp-admin package search`
> >
> > Packages A, B, and C all show up from the package search, indicating
> > they have no repository.
> >
> > - - Is there a use case for keeping them around in Pulp if they aren't in
> > a repository? Arguably that would make a future sync that would download
> > those packages faster since they already exist, but is that the intention?
> >
> > - - Is there a way to purge those packages? For instance, say a Pulp
> > installation used to mirror Fedora 12 but gave up on it when Fedora 14
> > came out. How do we reclaim all of that space on the Pulp server's hard
> > disk and/or clean out those packages from the database?
> 
> Hmm.  I thought the desired behavior was to delete the packages and 
> associated rpms off of the filesystem if the packages are no longer 
> associated with a repository.
> 
> -Todd
> > - -- 
> > Jay Dobies
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Personally I think the default behavior should be as Cliff and Todd
suggested. I like Cliff's suggestion of allowing an override too, but I
wouldn't implement it unless we have some mechanism for letting users
change their minds later (package delete?)

-- 
Jason L Connor
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
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