[Spacewalk-list] Problems while deleting Packages no longer present in channels

[Stephen Herr]

Hmm, sorry but I don't. I'd appreciate it if you could file a bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk

-Stephen

On 07/30/2014 02:49 AM, Souvignier, Daniel wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> exactly that, but the packages won't disappear. It doesn't matter how small
> the batches of packages are. The process works for some time and then
> disappears showing the 500 in the webinterface. Other suggestions?
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel Souvignier
>
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems while deleting Packages no longer
> present in channels
>
> On 07/29/2014 02:33 AM, Souvignier, Daniel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to free up some disk space while deleting channels.
>> However, I deleted the channels via the spacewalk web interface, which
>> didn't delete the packages. The packages are still listed if you go to
>> Channels
>> -> Manage Software Channels -> Software packages in the List packages
>> -> in
>> no channels view. When I try to delete all those packages (approx.
>> 21000
>> packages) I get a 500 Internal Server error, with no logs to look into.
>> Is there a possibility to delete those packages via spacecmd? And if
>> not, is that error fixable in the webinterface? Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel Souvignier
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Did you get the 500 a few minutes after you clicked the button? That
> probably just means that the connection timed out while waiting for the
> operation to complete, which shouldn't affect the actual deleting of the
> packages. They should disappear eventually. Look at 'top' or something to
> see if the process is still running. Failing that, you can try deleting them
> in smaller batches.
>
> -Stephen
>
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