[Spacewalk-list] Deleting published Errata deletes associated Packages

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:23:47 +0200
Steve Meier <email at steve-meier.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> since I am no longer the only one who is experiencing this I wanted
> to ask if this is intended behavior or maybe just a side-effect of a
> key constraint:
> 
> When I delete a published Errata (for CentOS) from my server it seems
> that the packages, which were referenced in this Errata get deleted.
> Why would Spacewalk do this?
> 
> I can run spacewalk-repo-sync to get the packages back afterwards but
> I don't think that's how it's supposed to work. Any feedback would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Steve

For now my workaround is to first delete the packages from the
published errata and only then delete the errata.

Franky