Version range aware search and remove commands

[raffienficiaud]

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I am using conan 1.9.0 on Windows 10.

I would be interested in having a better pattern handling in the conan search and conan remove commands, especially wrt. versions ranges:

Example:

conan remove --force 'mypackage/[<2.2.2-13]@user/stable'

tells me that no package is found (there is clearly the 2.2.2-12)

conan remove 'mypackage/*@user/stable' -q "version < 2.2.2-13"

does not work neither. I also expect that conan search and conan remove behave the same wrt. versions.

Thanks!

[memsharded]

Right now, version ranges are only for resolution, but not for "navigation". The only possibility would be:

$ conan remove pkg/*@user/channel #Then manually select yes/no for each version

The -q "version < xxx" doesn't work because queries are only for searching binaries, by their configuration (settings, options).

This could be a "nice to have", but not very easy to implement.

[raffienficiaud]

Yes, this is a nice to have. Let me a bit explain the background. We have CI that runs isolated with CONAN_USER_HOME. This tends to grow over time. It would be nice that, when I update one of my dependencies, I just do a conan remove mypackage/[<2.2.2-13]@user/stable for all the previous versions of the package I just updated.

This would be a nice "nice to have" :)

[memsharded]

With Conan 2.0 new architecture, this became way easier to implement, was done in #14004 for next Conan 2.0.7.

Furthermore, it will not be for search(list in 2.0) and remove, but also can be used for download and upload commands.