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

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:28:34 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote
> 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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Ah, we may have run this after the script: "spacewalk-data-fsck -r -S -C -O".  Give that
a try.

Dimitri

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