[Spacewalk-list] Best practice for Software channel clean up / removing obsolete packages?

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:18:49 +0200, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote
> Hi,
> 
> we use spacewalk for some time and our software channels grew over time.
> 
> Now we are on Version 2.1 (nice look and feel btw)
> 
> Furthermore there are a lot of old versions of most software showing up
> in the different channels in the spacewalk frontend.
> 
> I remember something, that I can/should/have to remove the entries for
> the unneeded/old packages from the spacewalk manage softwarechannel and
> have to run a script like swalk-clean-old-packages.py from an other
> spacewalk user.
> 
> But for what I see, after doing that, all packages show up again, and
> the diskspace is used again after the nightly sync....
> 
> So, is there a best practice in cleaning up all that? :)
> 
> My be I'v missed a step or there are better solutions yet.
> 
> How do you manage obsolete packages?
> 
> 	Thanks for Hints . Götz
> -- 
> Götz Reinicke
> IT-Koordinator
> 
> E-Mail goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
> 
> Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


Someone was kind enough to create a script that does what you're looking for.  I've used
it, and it works well.  Find it here: http://blog.christian-stankowic.de/?p=5684&lang=en

Dimitri


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