[Spacewalk-list] Deleting published Errata deletes associated Packages

[Jan Hutař]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 18:57:53 +0200 Franky Van Liedekerke
<liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:58:23 +0200
> Jan Hutař <jhutar at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:32:16 +0200 Franky Van Liedekerke
> > <liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Do you see package gets really deleted
> > (including /var/satellite), or is it just dissociated from
> > the channel (an you can see it in Channels -> Manage Software
> > Channels -> Manage Software Packages)?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> 
> Apparently I failed to respond to this (a year ago), but since
> it is still happening with spacewalk 1.9: the packages are
> just dissociated from the channel.
> 
> Franky

No problem. I suppose this is an expected behavior. Packages are
part of an errata. Un-publishing errata should remove the
packages from the channel as well. On the other hand if you have
these packages in different channel (as a package, not as a part
of the errata), they should not be deleted from this second
channel when you delete the erratum.

Channel1
  Errata1
    Package1
Channel1
  Package1

So, deleting erratum Errata1 should not remove Package1 from
Channel2. If this happens, that is IMO a bug.

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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