[Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

Ronald Parker rparker at customerdirect.com
Fri Nov 5 21:24:26 UTC 2010


>> Deleting packages in 25 steps might take a long time if you have about 60'000 :/ 

> I hacked up a script which pulled the orphan package IDs out of the database 
> directly then deleted them one by one with the removePackage API call. If you 
> left it running overnight it did the business. Unfortunately, I cannot find it, but it 
> didn't take very long to write so maybe you could explore this approach. 

I'm in a similar situation. Can anyone point to some documentation for the API 
so I can look into this approach? 

Thanks, 
Ron Parker 
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