[Spacewalk-list] Delete Orphaned Packages

[Dimitri Yioulos]

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Dacre
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 5:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Delete Orphaned Packages

Recently used https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-remove-old-packages to remove around 5000 packages not in channels. Worked well.

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> On 19 Nov 2015, at 21:38, Wojtak, Greg <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> 
> I have almost 35k orphaned packages somehow, and I just want to delete them.  If I try and delete more than 250 or so through web UI, I get an ISE.  I tried using spacecmd package_remove <package_name> which I am getting from package_listorphans.  When I try this, I just get back an error, ERROR: Failed to remove package ID 126826
> ERROR: Failed to remove package ID 126826.
> 
> Any ideas what's up, or how I can remove these?
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I'm using the script found here, and it also works very well:  http://markmail.org/message/b4fgwi72jhdi7fen.  I also run "spacewalk-data-fsck -v -r -S -C -O" periodically.

HTH

Dimitri