Delete package
akupreev opened this issue · 2 comments
Information for package Uyuni-Server-release:
Repository : uyuni-server-stable
Name : Uyuni-Server-release
Version : 2024.05-230900.217.1.uyuni3
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/systemsmanagement:Uyuni
Support Level : Level 3
Installed Size : 1.4 KiB
Installed : Yes
Status : out-of-date (version 2024.02-230900.213.1.uyuni3 installed)
Source package : Uyuni-Server-release-2024.05-230900.217.1.uyuni3.src
Summary : Uyuni Server
Hello colleagues,
I have a task to remove several packages from the directory /var/spacewalk/packages as we do not use them, and also they trigger the antivirus scan.
Can you please advise on the correct way to delete them?
I tried deleting them via the Web UI (Software –> Manage –> Package Management), then ran "spacewalk-data-fsck -r -S -C -0" on the server, but they did not disappear from the /var/spacewalk/packages directory.
(Unofficial answer from another user)
The issue is that there's entries in both database and ondisk for each file. It's quite intensive to regularly compare both when you have a several repos.
If those few files now only exists on the filesystem, and isn't used, then removing it should be safe. If they reappear because they're in a synced repo, that's a different problem and harder to solve.
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On the wider issue of removing old files from mirrored repos, this is how we do it. There may be a better way.
This (very old) script was written to solve this problen for Spacewalk, before it was forked into Uyuni. We still use it with Uyuni to periodically sync the database and file system and stop them growing excessively. We call it once a month with this for general hygiene
./spacewalk-remove-old-packages.py -c credfile -w
./spacewalk-remove-old-packages.py -c credfile -A
spacecmd package\removeorphans
/usr/bin/spacewalk-data-fsck -r -S -C -O