[Spacewalk-list] Channel/repository deleted but packages remain.

[Michael Mraka]

> Hello, all.
> 
> I recently did some maintenance to our Spacewalk 2.6 server, which included removing some no longer needed channels, and their associated repositories.  I thought this would also remove the packages associated with the channels.  Wrong.  The packages are still on the server, and running my standard clean-up tools (swalk-clean-old-packages.py and spacewalk-data-fsck) aren't removing them.  I'd like to remove these packages and reclaim disk space.  How can I accomplish this?
> 
> With thanks.

spacewalk-data-fsck --remove should do it. If not then packages are
still referenced from the database. Maybe they were linked to more
channels and one of them is still alive?

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat