There seems to be an issue with ProGet's Conan V2, where the conan remove command fails when using the -p profile filter.

example:
conan remove freetype/2.13.2:* -p os=Linux -r=ccdc-3rdparty-conan-2 --dry-run -c

gives:

Remove summary: ccdc-3rdparty-conan-2 freetype/2.13.2#012f2e384087877914dbac626c3978e2: Removed binaries: ['43faaf581cf6a121854a451651cf2ff235f19f7c', 'd87280ec3b4af24f27d50d5e0df28450bce31aea', 'e0458180222f4e39fcff2bfa680bfa6468ca7198']

Whereas the non dry-run:

conan remove freetype/2.13.2:* -p os=Linux -r=ccdc-3rdparty-conan-2 -c

gives us:

ERROR: expected revision after package id. [Remote: ccdc-3rdparty-conan-2]

We reached out to the Conan team, where they tested and confirmed it should be working fine from their end, see thread: https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/18553

Could you investigate and confirm if this is a known limitation or bug?

Thanks!

Hi @stevedennis,

You're right, they are blobs, however the directory structure itself is still has value and reflects the layout of the package e.g. name/version/export/package etc.

Here's a screenshot of what we see:

So even though some of the folder/files have hashed names, the overall structure with export/,
package/, and files like conaninfo.txt are quite useful when trying to inspect/debug packages.

Something like this in the ProGet web UI would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi @stevedennis,

Thanks for the quick reply, just to clarify based on our setup:

When we view our Conan feed (e.g. 3rdparty-conan), the web UI lists packages and shows basic metadata like name, version, and description, but when we click into a package, the view is still quite limited as we only see usage instructions and the version number, but not the actual internal folder structure or uploaded files.

We’re hoping for something where you can browse the actual assets or files. A Conan package usually hosts files and directories creating a structure which is accessible via the CLI or Conan V2 API, but it’s not shown properly in the UI.

We would like the ability to search assets across directories using metadata via pgutils.

Our workflows rely heavily on pgutils to query assets, but we're currently limited to basic filtering. The ability to query based on asset metadata (e.g. custom fields, timestamps, tags, etc.) would be incredibly helpful.

We would like to request a feature for ProGet's web UI, this would be the ability to browse the directory structure under /v2/conans/ for Conan feeds.

Currently the Conan V2 API endpoint: https://proget.<domain>/v2/conans/ can be queried directly, so it would also be helpful to navigate the directory structure within the web interface.

This would help our Devs quickly inspect available Conan packages, verify uploads and better understand the structure of feeds without needing to interact with the API or run Conan CLI commands.

I have a custom github action that runs the commands explicitly:

pgutil sources add --name=Default --url=<myURL> --api-key=<myKey>
pgutil packages list --feed=<myFeed>
pgutil packages download --source=Default --feed=<myFeed> --package=7zip --version=latest

which results in:

Storing credentials. Note: Sensitive values are obfuscated but not securely encrypted.
<long list of available packages appended by latest version>
Downloading 7zip latest from <myFeed> feed...
  Saving package to 7zip.24.9.0.nupkg...
  Download complete (0 bytes)

a simple list shows the file is actually 0 bytes.
This happens for Mac/Windows/Linux github runners and self hosted runners.
When I run the above on my PC in powershell it downloads fine with a non-zero file size.

Is this to do with permissions, it's able to get the right version? Same thing happens with Assets.
The Api key has download permissions to the feed.

I'm Currently developing a custom GitHub action to download assets via pgutils as per documentation.

A challenge I've encountered is that when running "pgutil assets list", the output lacks metadata such as modification date/time. This is crucial to many of our workflows where we need to selectively download files in various folders based on the recency.

Is it possible if pgutils could implement a "sort by" flag that allows for sorting either alphabetically or by modification date in both ascending and descending order?

Please let me know if you would like any further information.