bincrafters-remove-outdated: suggest and/or track upstream issue to make tool obsolete

[Croydon]

I believe that the tool bincrafters-remove-outdated shouldn't be necessary to begin with.

Removing outdated binary packages from a remote should be something which is easily doable with official Conan capabilities

See also

• Remove outdated package after to upload conan-io/conan-package-tools#282
• slightly related (maybe): Implement something like git gc to clean out older versions of dependencies. conan-io/conan#5453 (though this one is only local for now)

[ericLemanissier]

In theory it could be already replaced with a single call to conan remove -r REMOTE -o -f */* no ?

[Croydon]

According to the documentation

https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/commands/misc/remove.html

-o, --outdated Remove only outdated from recipe packages. This flag
can only be used with a reference

So almost, I think. We still need to get a list of all references.

I'm wondering if it would be reasonable to suggest advancing it for an entire remote and/or pattern?

WDYT? // @uilianries

[ericLemanissier]

CONAN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=3600 conan remove -r bincrafters -o -f "*/*" seems to work on my machine

[Croydon]

This seems to work indeed! 🥳

Looks like you know more than the documentation 😄

[Croydon]

At least it work for me locally. CI runs for the maximum time and then times out

https://github.com/bincrafters/bincrafters-conventions/runs/1555012641?check_suite_focus=true

[ericLemanissier]

That's surprising, it means the search for "/" failed 4 times with a timeout happening after 1h ?

[Croydon]

This works fine now: https://github.com/bincrafters/bincrafters-conventions/blob/0ec9c9f5052a00bbcdb962d8dae0117b131ac323/.github/workflows/remove-obsolete-packages.yml#L27

Deprecating our own tool for the call conan remove -r <remote> --outdated