chocolatey
Explain search by tags behavior
Steps to reproduce
Having following command line chat with chocolatey 0.10.9:
PS> choco list git
60 packages found.
PS> choco list git --by-tag-only msysgit
0 packages found.
PS> choco list --by-tag-only git msysgit
0 packages found.
PS> choco list --by-tag-only msysgit git
msysgit 1.7.10.20120526 [Approved]
1 packages found.
PS> choco list --by-tag-only msysgit
5 packages found.
In this example there are multiple packages which fit to search by name "git" and also multiple packages from this list contain both tags "git msysgit" in chocolatey.org (official public) source.
- See also https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsList
- Documentation doesn't mention how to use the filter nor examples
What is the expected behavior?
Use cases:
- If both name and tag is provided, does it mean choco returns packages which fit
NAME AND TAG? - If tag only is provided should it return all packages with that tag?
- How to provide multiple tags, what is the separator?
- If multiple tags are provided:
- does the order meter?
- choco returns only packages where
ORorANDoperator is applied for all tags?
@jirkapok based on the source code here:
https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/blob/0c11effebeadbd6bec1d1a16206942aef4204446/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/nuget/NugetList.cs#L82
And the fact that the Tags collection would each separate tag, it doesn't look like providing multiple tags in the search criteria is supported. I agree that this needs to be clearly documented though.
There are still some discrepancies in the results that are returned though, so perhaps some other work is required here.
Is there an update on this.. We are also having issues when we tag our own packages, with multiple tags, we can only search for the first tag in the list, which is rather useless for us.
