On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:24:26PM -0500, Ronald Parker wrote:
>
> >> Deleting packages in 25 steps might take a long time if you have about
> >> 60'000 :/
>
> > I hacked up a script which pulled the orphan package IDs out of the
> > database
> > directly then deleted them one by one with the removePackage API call. If
> > you
> > left it running overnight it did the business. Unfortunately, I cannot find
> > it, but it
> > didn't take very long to write so maybe you could explore this approach.
>
> I'm in a similar situation. Can anyone point to some documentation for the
> API
> so I can look into this approach?
On you Spacewalk, go to
https://FQDN/rhn/apidoc/handlers/PackagesHandler.jsp#removePackage
Hope this helps,
--
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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