Mike,

Thanks for your response. What I did in the meantime is "yum install pulp-admin-client", then using the pulp password in "/etc/katello/pulp_user_password-file", I ran "pulp-admin login -uadmin -p[password]", then "pulp-admin orphan remove --all". It seemed like that cleared everything up, although I don't know if that would have any undesirable consequences for Katello. Any insight on this? Also, for anyone else reading this, I followed the pulp admin client guide found here:

https://pulp-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/pulp-2.1/admin-client/orphan.html

Thanks,
Brian


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Mike McCune <mmccune@redhat.com> wrote:
On 07/11/2013 12:27 PM, Brian Lee wrote:
Still trying to understand how content is retained/purged from Katello.
I tried the following on a test system running Katello Version:
1.3.30-1.el6:
- Created a custom repository
- Synced repo to the Library
- Did not promote the content
- Deleted the custom repository

The packages no longer show in the content search, yet they still exist
in /var/lib/pulp. Only one repository was created on the system.

Thanks for your help


unfortunately no, you can read some of the details here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831276#c10

and a workaround is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831276#c15

let me know if you have questions.

Mike
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