Hi Tim

I think this could be what you are looking for:

spacecmd {SSM:0}> package_removeorphans --help package_removeorphans: Remove packages that are not in a channel usage: package_removeorphans

Regards, Javier

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Tim Shaw Tim.Shaw@medsci.ox.ac.uk Gesendet: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:59 PM An: uyuni-users@opensuse.org Betreff: Removing packages not assigned to a channel from the command line

Hello

I recently removed some channels using the GUI in 2021.09 and somehow I managed to fail to delete the associated packages with the result that I now have a large number of packages in the system which belong to no channel. Attempts to process these 23000+ packages through the GUI result in a timeout error message on the web interface and it isn't clear whether any background process has actually started to purge these packages...

Is there a command line way to deal with these packages now that they belong to no channel which will tell me what's going on without timing out?

I cannot immediately see a spacewalk-xxxx coammnd or a spacecmd subcommand which looks likely...

Many thanks!

T

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