[Spacewalk-list] Recommended way to uninstall Spacewalk

[Michael Mraka]

Giovanni Torres wrote:
% Eh, I just ended up reinstalling on a new vm.  Whenever you run the
% 'yum install spacewalk-oracle' on a clean system, you end up
% downloading 300 - 400 dependencies.  I'd rather not mess with that,
% although I was considering it.  Perhaps next time, I'll keep the list
% of all the spacewalk dependencies and then uninstalling all those rpms
% and see what directories/files get left behind or need to get cleaned
% up.  Maybe that is the way to go the next time. 


On Fedora 12 / RHEL 6 this can be easily done with

        yum history

find spacewalk install transaction id in the list, check content of the
transaction 

        yum history info <transaction_id>

and undo it

        yum history undo <transaction_id>



Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat