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? > > Thanks for Hints . Götz > -- > Götz Reinicke > IT-Koordinator > > E-Mail goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de > > Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
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 Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
