Delete old packages

ℹ️ NOTE: This package is no longer maintained nor used by Arc XP themes repos. It was originally created to target GitHub Packages starting from older versions to newer ones. This was forked from another library whose issue focuses on this reverse chronological functionality.

Github action for deleting old versions of packages in the Github package registry.

This is very similar to actions/delete-package-versions but targets a different use case.

The action works by getting at most 20 packages with at most the oldest 100 versions of each, applying the filters (see table below) on them and then deleting the matching versions.

If you have more than 100 versions and none of the 100 oldest versions match, no packages will be deleted! Note: If you are looking for the 100 newest version matches, use version-query-order first.

Inputs

Name	Description	Required	Default
owner	Owner of the repo containing the package(s)	❌	Set by Github
repo	Repo containing the package(s)	❌	Set by Github
user	User containing the package(s)	❌	❌
organization	Organization containing the package(s)	❌	❌
names	Names of the packages	✔️	❌
semver-pattern	Semver range of the versions	❌	^.+$
version-pattern	Regex pattern of the versions	❌	❌
version	Specific version to delete	❌	❌
keep	Number of versions to exclude from deletions	❌	2
token	Token with the necessary scopes to delete package versions	❌	Set by Github
dry-run	If the action should only print what it would do.	❌	false
version-query-order	Where to start looking for version regex matches. Default is "last". You can pick "first".	❌	last

⚠️ You can provide either owner and repo, user or organization. An error is thrown for invalid combinations.

⚠️ You can provide either version, semver-pattern or version-pattern. An error is thrown for invalid combinations.

⚠️ keep can not be set when version is set.

Example usage

Delete old versions of the packages "package-1" and "package-2" for the current repository.

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  names: |
    package-1
    package-2

Delete old versions of the packages "package-1" and "package-2" for the organization "my-organization".

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  organization: my-organization
  names: |
    package-1
    package-2

Delete old versions in the form of "1.0.0-RC1" of the package "package".

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  version-pattern: "^\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+-RC\\d+$" # The regex needs to be escaped!
  names: |
    package

Delete old versions with a lower semver version than 2.x of the package "package".

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  semver-pattern: "<2.x"
  names: |
    package

Delete old versions of the package "package" but keep at least 5 versions.

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  keep: 5
  names: |
    package

Delete version foo-bar of the package "package".

uses: WPMedia/delete-github-package-versions@v0.4.10
with:
  version: foo-bar
  names: |
    package