[Spacewalk-list] Orphaned packages?

[Steve Neidinger]

I deleted the channel using the webUI.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:
> Steve Neidinger wrote:
> % This morning, I changed the configuration of one of my channels and
> % its repository in my Spacewalk 1.2 test system, using a Oracle XE
> % database.
> %
> % I was attempting to keep the channel and repository names, point the
> % repository to a different URL and delete all the (17K+) packages
> % within the channel. I first changed the repository URL, then deleted
> % all the packages from the channel. The deletion of packages appeared
>
> How did you delete channel? From webUI or via spacewalk-remove-channel?
>
> % to work correctly, because the packages now are not shown within
> % Spacewalk, but the disk space usage has not changed. It appears I
> % orphaned them on the disk because when I look at
> % /var/satellite/redhat/x/xxx I see packages which were deleted from
> % within Spacewalk. Obviously, I should have taken different steps to do
> % this, but what is the proper way to delete these orphaned packages?
>
> Try spacewalk-data-fsck:
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=blob_plain;f=backend/satellite_tools/spacewalk-data-fsck;h=2c3d3be2c5046738db73d8466912c03838e1cb3c;hb=6adc120be621ea4c9c1463aa00308466f8134388
>
> I wonder why it isn't already in spacewalk-backend... let's add it there.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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