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 > > -- > Götz Reinicke > IT-Koordinator > > Tel. +49 7141 969 82 420 > E-Mail [email protected] > > Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH > Akademiehof 10 > 71638 Ludwigsburg > www.filmakademie.de > > Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 > > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL > Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, > Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg > > Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt
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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
