[Spacewalk-list] Purging not related packages

[Ciro Iriarte]

Thanks!


2012/12/17 Scott Worthington <scott.c.worthington at gmail.com>

> On 12/17/2012 2:16 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> > 2012/12/17 Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
> >
> >> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> >> % 2012/12/14 Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
> >> %
> >> % > Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> >> % > % Hi, give some recomendations in the list I decided to separate
> some
> >> % > % packages from the main channel and create sub channels for them.
> >> % > %
> >> % > % For example, all official RHEL packages (from differente RHN
> >> Channels)
> >> % > % would go in one channel, the same for SLES but third party package
> >> should
> >> % > % go in different sub-channels (epel, obs, jpackage, etc).
> >> % > %
> >> % > % The thing is that after excluding the EPEL repository the main
> >> % > RHEL5/RHEL6
> >> % > % channels still include the EPEL packages.What's the best way to
> >> purge the
> >> % > % no longer related packages from the channel?.
> >> % >
> >> % > I'm afraid the only way is to create your own script which will
> remove
> >> % > packages via API.
> >> % >
> >> % > Regards,
> >> % >
> >> % > --
> >> % > Michael Mráka
> >> % > Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> >> % >
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> >> %
> >> %
> >> % Hmm, what about a one-shot command to delete all the packages from
> that
> >> % channel?, I'm ok with downloading all the required packages again in
> this
> >> % case....
> >>
> >> Then you can remove all packages from channel from in WebUI, go to
> >>  Channels >
> >>   Manage Software Channels >
> >>    your_channel_name >
> >>     Packages >
> >>      List / Remove >
> >>       Select All >
> >>        Confirm Removal >
> >>         Remove
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael Mráka
> >> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> >>
> >
> > Thanks Michael, that did it. The weird thing is that /var/satellite
> didn't
> > shrink at all...
> >
> > Regards,
>
> spacewalk-data-fsck -r -vvv
>
> For details:
>
> spacewalk-data-fsck -h
>
>
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