[Pulp-list] As a user, how to clear/clean contents in pulp?

[zhangxiao]

On 24/5/2021 7:51 pm, Grant Gainey wrote:
> Hi Xiao!
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 10:06 PM Zhang, Xiao <xiao.zhang at windriver.com 
> <mailto:xiao.zhang at windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Experts,
>
>     I just start to use pulp_deb with docker pulp/pulp.I wonder How to
>     clean the pulp database and release disk space?
>
>     I made several repositories, upload Deb packages, sycn remote
>     repositories, while after I deleted all distributions,
>     publications, remotes and repositories, there are still lots of
>     content/packages. So how to remove all of them. Or, are there any
>     methods to clear the whole environment and construct a pure new
>     one(without any data/file)?
>
>
> Pulp deduplicates content, so a given artifact can be shared among an 
> arbitrary number of repositories. This is why deleting the repos 
> doesn't on its own remove the content.
>
> When a piece of content is no longer related-to any repositories, it's 
> considered an 'orphan', and is available to be cleaned up. You can 
> start the orphan-cleanup process with this API call:
>
>   http DELETE http://<your-pulp-maching-and-port>/pulp/api/v3/orphans/ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://*3Cyour-pulp-maching-and-port*3E/pulp/api/v3/orphans/__;JSU!!AjveYdw8EvQ!NQcpfVi76yN9rLVBWQhz4hNwl088PvZCaRvfdqG6sndiOGskh5KJ3lXVI58LhQkqQ0ko$>
>
> That starts a task that will remove all the unattached content.

It works, work in order with millions of packages!

Great thanks!


Best Regards

Xiao

>
> Great question, hope this answers it for you!
> Grant
>
>
>
>     Thanks
>     Xiao
>
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