Remove a package with no builds

[Mike McLean]

On 07/06/2010 06:48 PM, Nathan Blackham wrote:
>> Koji already has the capability to (sanely) delete a build. It doesn't
>> have its own direct cli subcommand, but you can run it like so:
>>
>> # brew call deleteBuild  fake-1.0-6
>>
>
> isn't brew the previous buildsystem that redhat was using.  Is there a
> way to call this through koji, or do I need to install brew?  Just for
> future note.  I don't need this now.

sorry, make that

# koji call deleteBuild fake-1.0-6

>> There are three things that will keep this from going through:
>> - build currently tagged
>> - build was used in a buildroot of another (non-deleted) build
>> - build was used in some other buildroot recently
>> If a build has such references, then you probably shouldn't be deleting it.
>>
>> If there are no such references, then this command will delete the build
>> from disk, delete any signature data for it, and mark the build deleted.
>> It will still have a small presence in the db as historical data (tag
>> history, deleted build entry, etc)