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@joshuagilman_1054 this is currently planned for 5.3.27 as PG-1934 (April 17) - we'll let you know if plans change!

Hi @mcascone ,

We don't have a single API method that can be used to delete all package versions from the API, but the foreach loop will do the trick!

I should add that I am doing this as the first stab at an attempt to automatically delete packages from a development feed, when the corresponding branch in github is deleted

I don't know the specifics/details of your use-case, but based on what I read, I'd recommend these guidelines:

• assuming: one GitHub repository, one project, one package you want to release
• use the same package name/group for all packages you create for this project, regardless of branch or development status
• create your "dev" packages using a prerelease version number, that has a sort of -ci.## version (assuming you use CI to build packages)
• embed the commit id and branch in your upack metadata file, for traceability
• if you want to see which branch the packages was created from using the version number alone, add a +branch metadata label to the version number for branches (don't do this for master)
• use repackaging and promotion to take your -ci packages to -rc to stable (and the desired feed)
• let retention policies automatically cleanup up the -ci packages

Hi @kichikawa_2913 ,

I think it's this way for "historic reasons" - mostly all the other feed types came later, and it seems no one ever changes these paths or noticed.

Easy enough to make it configurable, but can you share your use case? Why do you want to use something other than a single root path with all of your packages?

Anyway I added a feature for this, and we should be able to get it in the next maintenance release PG-2006

Cheers,

Steve

Hi @benjamin-soddy_9591,

No problem "resurrecting" topics! We definitely want to hear from users about feedback/feature requests.

We still haven't had anyone else ask for deprecation since this request, but I wonder if there's a better solution to solving your challenges than this feature. It sounds like you want to increase governance of your NuGet Packages, potentially with some sort of compliance in mind.

The dotnet list package --vulnerable is probably not what you want for your organization; NuGet's Built-in Vulnerability Scanning is really limited, in part because it only reports on a fraction of known package vulnerabilities (164 as of today). It also won't block packages that you deem problematic, unlike ProGet's feature.

The same is true with dotnet list package --outdated -- it's probably not what you want, because it relies on developers to have to know (1) to run the command, and (2) know what to do if there's an outdated dependency.

There are better ways to manage third-party packages (see How to Create a Package Approval Workflow for NuGet), and you'd better served knowing who's consuming outdated packages (see Use Package Consumers to Track Dependencies

Just some thoughts; like I said, we haven't had any demand for this feature, but these are proven solutions for improving governance of packages as organizations grow/expand their NuGet usage like you are.

Cheers,
Steve

Hi @kichikawa_2913 ,

The NuGet client's behavior is based on NuGet.org, where no authentication is ever required to view/download packages. As such, it doesn't pass the API key when doing those queries; instead, you can use a username of api and the password of your api key.

Based on the issue though, it sounds like ProGet is unable resolve the groups; I would use the "test privileges" function on the Tasks page to verify this. Thatw ill show you if the username can download packages or not.

The most common reason that groups aren't resolving is that the member is not directly in the group (i.e. they're in a group which is a member of the group), and you don't have recursive groups enabled; do note that this is really slow on some domains.

Cheers,
Steve

Hi @mcascone ,

Just looking at the code real quick, I suspect we have a bug where it writes out the wrong files name for the new package:
https://github.com/Inedo/upack/blob/master/src/upack/Repack.cs#L120

That's probably an easy fix, which we can do as part of this Q&A item. I'll wait to hear back about this one.

As for the error, "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.", that sounds like it's HTTPS related. Could you attach Fiddler, or something like that, to find out what's happening under the hood? We may be able to error message to better report it if so.

Cheers,
Steve

Hi @cimen-eray1_6870 ,

Great questions; there's no problem having a second instance with ProGet Free Edition.

The relevant restriction is that you can't use a Connector in ProGet Free Edition to connect to another instance of ProGet (either another Free Edition or your paid edition).

Hopefully you can use your Maven feed as a proof of concept for implementing it in the main instance. Good luck!

Cheers,
Steve

Hi @brett-polivka,

I've added it to our Other Feed Types page, and linked this as the official discussion thread.

There's a lot of things to consider in developing a new feed type, but ultimately it all comes down to two things: (1) how much more value does this feature bring to our users, and (2) how many new licenses of ProGet would this feature sell.

The second question is where internal market research comes in, but we would love your opinion on the first question.

Here's a nice and simple way to help understand value: how much more do you suppose your company/organization would pay for this feature if it were available as a hypothetical add-on? $100/year? $1,000/year? $10,000/year? Etc. And why? What time is it saving, risk is it mitigating, etc.

The second part of the value equation is how much effort will it take, technically speaking. It's more than 15 minutes obviously, but is it 10 hours? 100 hours? Etc.

On the plus side, the package format seems to be documented pretty well. However, the registry API has a huge red flag:

The index key should be a URL to a git repository with the registry's index.

Does this mean their API is Git-based, and we'd need to first add private Git repository hosting to ProGet? And did they test it with private/authenticated Git repositories, or just their public (probably GitHub) repository?

@stefan-hakansson_8938 as you noticed, ProGet's Debian connectors are not currently designed to handle the gigantic, operating-system mirrors very well. This is because they are always refreshed "on demand" - which is what you want for CI/CD workflows.

It's not great for public repository mirroring, however. In Q4 or later, we will explore adding an option to do periodic updates.

Hi @m-webster_0049 ,

The first thing I would try is to troubleshoot this is to switch to a very basic API key like hello. That just eliminates any typos, spacing, etc.

Next, I would try specifying the API Key via X-ApiKey header (see docs) - just to see if you get a different error. It's possible there is a regression somewhere.

Best,
Steve

@mmaharjan_0067 thanks for sharing that

I misunderstood the remove command -- I didn't realize that was deleting from the feed, and just assumed it was removing from the local project or something.

I don't see any code for DELETE in the feed, so we would have to add that. No idea how easy that is going to be, but we'll try doing it at same time with the UI improvements. You can track via PG-3035.

Thanks,
steve

Hi @mmaharjan_0067 ,

This is definitely some kind of UI regression; we did a lot of code-cleanup / refactoring on the front-end pages. We'll get this fixed via PG-3034 in an upcoming maintenance release (targeting next week's 2025.4).

Thanks,
Steve

@jfullmer_7346 this is a bit tricky behind the scenes but hopefully will be resolved with PG-3047 -- which we hope to get in the next or following maintenance release

Hi @forbzie22_0253,

There's no Windows event logged, but once the /heath page is reachable, then the application is ready. If you're using SQL Server and IIS on the same box, then both of those must first load before ProGet can start.

Thanks,
Steve

@aristo_4359 thanks for letting us know! You are the first person to inquire about it over very many years :)

We'll see if anyone else is interested in this and then we can consider adding it!

Hi @james-woods_8996 ,

Setting the ASPNETCORE_URLS is the correct way to address this; that troubleshooting guide is outdated (though it probably still works to write out the config file like that).

As far as I understand, this behavior has not changed in ProGet 2025 and has been the default behavior since ProGet 2022. We had considered changing the Linux ports to be 8624/8625 to mirror Windows defaults, but decided to just update the documentation to clarify.

Thanks,
Steve

Hi @pariv_0352,

Thanks for clarifying; looking closer, ProGet requires that X-Forwarded-Host is simply a hostname. You're right, there is no "standard" for this, but that's what ProGet does for the time being.. and if the input is invalid, then you get the error you'll see.

I would change your reverse-proxy header configuration to:

• X-Forwarded-Host: www.testdomain.com
• X-Forwarded-Port: 82

Hope that helps,
Steve

Hi @mmaharjan_0067,

This is not a trivial request and would require database changes, new API endpoints, and of course pgutil changes. We will put it on our ProGet 2026 roadmap for future consideration -- hopefully some other users will chime in!

Thanks,
Steve

@p-pelinski_1371 @pbe_9047 thanks for confirming that!

We will get this fixed via PG-3031 in the next maintenance release. You are also welcome to try the proget:25.0.3-ci.3 container image, which is building now.

@mmaharjan_0067 we'll see how we can improve this while we work on PG-3034

Hi @mmaharjan_0067,

I think we can call this a "known limitation" now that you've discovered it ;)

It's a bit tricky to set up a conan debug/testing environment, so to advance this further instead of putting off another few days.... do you mind trying to run the command with --verbose and share the output? How about without the -p command?

I'm just trying to see what URLs the conan client is trying to call, and make a guess for how we can address it.

Thanks,
Steve

@phopkins_6694 perfect, just what I was looking for

I was able to reproduce this - searches via the NuGet API (which connectors use) will consider tags, while local searches seem to only be looking at names.

I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but we'll try to get it fixed soon. Unfortunately it's not a trivial fix, hopefully we'll do it via PG-3046, likely in the July 18 maintenance release.

Thanks,
Steve

Hi @koksime-yap_5909 ,

This is a known issue and will be fixed via PG-3063 in teh next maintenance release, shipping later today.

Thanks,
Steve

Hi @fabrice-mejean_5174 ,

Thanks for the suggestion; to help move this forward, we thought about this from a technical standpoint. We're a little hesitant to call the command pgutil packages audit since there's already an audit command for builds and vulnerabilities.

One idea is to deprecate pgutil vulnerabilities audit and call it pgutil packages audit instead.

In any case, this new command is a combination of pgutil builds audit and pgutil vulns audit.

The pgutil packages audit command would input a project, something like this:

pgutil packages audit --project=c:\projects\MyProject.csproj

Behind the scenes, pgutil would parse and POST a packageset:

POST /api/sca/audit-packages
[ 
    {
        "name": myPackage
        "version": 1.2.3
        "type": "nuget"
    },
    {
        "name": myPackage
        "version": 1.2.3
        "type": "nuget"
    }
]

The API would return an array I suppose (we don't have any samples for that, but it's a serialized BuildInfo.cs), and the end result would look like this:

$> pgutil packages audit --project=c:\projects\MyProject.csproj

Parsing MyProject.csproj... found X packages.

Azure.Core-1.35.0
 Compliance      : Compliant
 License         : MIT
 Vulnerabilities : None

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables 8.0.0 
 Compliance      : Noncompliant
 License         : MIT, Apache-2.0
 Vulnerabilities : PG-123456 (High)
   the vulnerability title of this vulnerability goes here

The API could obviously contain more info. It's documented via serialized .cs classes here:
https://github.com/Inedo/pgutil/tree/thousand/Inedo.ProGet

Thanks,
Steve