[Feature Request] Support multiple packages

[Niek]

Right now just a single package is supported with package-name. I tried specifying a list but that doesn't work. It would be great if multiple packages could be supported.

[NamrataJha]

Hey @Niek great idea but I believe action matrices might come in handy for this ask. With matrices you can configure your workflow to run on multiple packages in parallel and even customise the workflow further.

[Niek]

@NamrataJha Matrices work great, but they require a separate job with matrix strategy to clean up the packages (instead of a single step inside a job). But I do understand if you don't want to clutter the code with supporting multiple package names.

[OmarCastro]

I have developed this feature in a fork. I am aware of action matrices, and the code clutter that will be added to the code. But I still believe it is worth the price as it can simplify this action's configuration.

[carlos-m-rodrigues]

Hello @NamrataJha, did you already analyzed the PR from @OmarCastro? It will be integrated?

[NamrataJha]

Hey @carlos-m-rodrigues @OmarCastro need some time for this. Will take a look in the week of April 18.

[carlos-m-rodrigues]

Hi @NamrataJha is there any update in this subject?

[bjornbouetsmith]

I came here looking for multi package deletion suport - but with matrixes I think this is not really required - since you can do this:

name: Cleanup packages

on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "0 5 * * *"

  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  clean:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        package: ['First.Id.Of.Package', 'Second.Id.Of.Package']
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Delete Package
        uses: actions/delete-package-versions@v3
        with: 
          package-name: ${{ matrix.package }}
          min-versions-to-keep: 10
          delete-only-pre-release-versions: "false"

So unless you want to clean packages as part of a ci pipeline - I don't think its such a big issue :-)

But anyway - the above is an example until/if its natively supported

[hfhbd]

What about just supporting a regex for all (string) input?

[utrescu]

The difference of deleting multiple packages via matrixes is billable time.

We are cleaning 32 different old packages via matrix and the result is:

And if we clean all packages in a single job: