[feature] conan config reset

[monsdar]

We're using conan config install <git-repo> within our CI environment. For our Windows builds we do not use Docker yet, they're just VMs and work like so:

1. Developer pushes changes to a repo
2. CI connects to one of the Windows VMs
3. CI uses conan config install to get the latest profiles and configuration for Conan
4. CI builds and tests the repo
5. CI uploads the Conan package
6. CI disconnects. Windows VM waits for the next job.

As you can see Windows jobs are not running within a sandboxed environment. That means when we do conan config install and install profileA it will remain there also for future jobs. To work around this we can clear the profiles directory before doing conan config install, but this is not as clean as it could be.

Therefore this feature request is to implement something like conan config reset or conan config uninstall. The command should reset the Conan config to its original state. It would help to have CI mechanisms a bit cleaner and would avoid us to implement any workarounds that may or may not work as intended and with future versions.

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[czoido]

Hi @monsdar,
Thank's a lot for the feedback, we'll give a thought at the feature for future developments :)

[sbudenkov]

Hi,
Do you have a plan for this feature? Will be very useful.

[memsharded]

@sbudenkov

I think that is conan config init, that was added some time ago. It seems that this issue was not correctly closed, please check it and let us know.

[sbudenkov]

Hi @memsharded,

Looks like no.
Cmd: conan config init --force doesn't clean files and folders in .conan directory.
Please check the original post out:

That means when we do conan config install and install profileA it will remain there also for future jobs. To work around this we can clear the profiles directory before doing conan config install, but this is not as clean as it could be.

[memsharded]

This has been implemented in #17514 for next Conan 2.12, thanks for the feedback (conan config clean command, and new clean APIs)