Bug 713912

Summary:	[RFE] Repo delete web service and CLI should be able to pass the "delete packages" flag to the repo API
Product:	[Retired] Pulp	Reporter:	Jay Dobies <jason.dobies>
Component:	z_other	Assignee:	Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Preethi Thomas <pthomas>
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Description Jay Dobies 2011-06-16 18:39:14 UTC

When deleting a repo, the package bits on the server aren't removed, even if they are orphaned. To delete them then requires a WS call per package, which will add up in the case of deleting, say, an RHEL base channel.

I suspect (just my gut feeling) that the typical behavior in deleting a repo would be to reclaim that space as well, so we should provide a hook on repo delete that will have the Pulp server clean up the package bits (assuming they aren't being used by another repo) as part of the repo delete. That'd make the API a single call in that case.

Implementation Notes:
- The repo API already has an option for "keep_files", though I'm not 100% sure it works. It's set by default to False but the files aren't being deleted.

- Once that's resolved, we need to update the repo WS API to accept this as an optional flag in the DELETE call (we already do something similar for CDS unregister as a reference).

Comment 1 Todd Sanders 2011-06-21 17:11:22 UTC

Default behavior is working.  This RFE is about exposing the "keep files" attribute to the WS layer.

-Todd

Comment 2 Jay Dobies 2011-06-30 18:24:03 UTC

Removing the RHUI blocker tag from it, the default is fine for RHUI.

Comment 3 Jay Dobies 2012-07-11 20:15:36 UTC

Closing as this workflow has changed in v2 and this is no longer applicable.