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

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:06:33 +0200, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote
> Am 15.04.14 15:22, schrieb 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?
> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Thanks Dimitri,
> 
> but I used that script some time a go and updated to the 0.2 Version
> from the author.
> 
> But I just removed files from the filesystem and for me I looks like it
> did not change the database or whatever. Over night my spacewalk server
> re-synced all old stuff back and all the freed space was used again.
> 
> Don't know why, but that happened to me.
> 
> 	Regards . Götz
> 
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Gotz,

Curious.  I've run that script a few times - it removes old packages and, in the
process, reclaims disk space.  There is a bit of configuration work to do in the script.
 When it runs successfully, you can see the packages being removed.  I'm afraid I can't
give you much guidance beyond that.

Dimitri


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