Léon, the devpi cleaner, enables batch removal of artefacts from a devpi server. Given a package and version specification, it will remove the specified versions of a package from either a single index or all indices of a given user.
Devpi cleaner wraps the original devpi remove command. It provides the following extensions:
- Conditionally limit removal to development packages.
- Conditionally limit removal to versions matching a given regular expression.
- Temporarily switch non-volatile indices to volatile.
- Apply a remove operation to all indices of a user.
- Throttle removal activities if the Devpi server is having difficulties keeping up.
The following command will delete all development packages preceding version 0.2 of delete_me on index index1 of the user:
> devpi-cleaner http://localhost:2414/ user/index1 'delete_me<=0.2' --dev-only
Password:
Packages to be deleted from user/index1:
* delete_me 0.2.dev1 on user/index1
* delete_me 0.2.dev2 on user/index1
Cleaning user/index1…
100% (2 of 2) |###########################| Elapsed Time: 0:00:00 Time: 0:00:00
>As shown, packages will be listed and confirmation required before they are actually deleted from the server.
usage: devpi-cleaner [-h] [--batch] [--dev-only] [--version-filter REGEX]
[--force] [--password PASSWORD] [--login LOGIN]
server user[/index] package_specification
A utility to batch-remove packages from a Devpi server.
positional arguments:
server The devpi server to operate on.
user[/index] The index from which to remove the packages. If only
the user part is specified, all indices of that user
will be cleaned.
package_specification
The specification of the package version(s) to remove.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--batch Assume yes on confirmation questions.
--dev-only Remove only development versions as specified by PEP
440.
--version-filter REGEX
Remove only versions in which the given regular
expression can be found.
--force Temporarily make indices volatile to enable package
removal.
--password PASSWORD The password with which to authenticate.
--login LOGIN The user name to user for authentication. Defaults to
the user of the indices to operate on.
The arguments --dev-only and --version-filter can be combined. In this case
only packages passing both filters will be removed.