Multiple packages with name <PACKAGE_NAME> exist

[FreePhoenix888]

Error

rejected {
  stack: "Error: Multiple packages with name '@freephoenix888/object-to-links-async-converter' exist.\n" +
    '    at eval (eval at memoized (/node_modules/lodash/memoize.js:62:23), <anonymous>:169:17)\n' +
    '    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)\n' +
    '    at getExistingPackages (eval at memoized (/node_modules/lodash/memoize.js:62:23), <anonymous>:161:39)\n' +
    '    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)\n' +
    '    at async eval (eval at memoized (/node_modules/lodash/memoize.js:62:23), <anonymous>:223:28)',
  message: "Multiple packages with name '@freephoenix888/object-to-links-async-converter' exist."
}

Additional Information

I acutally have a few versions of the package

Question

What should I do? Should I delete the old version of the package?

Tags

npm-packager

[Konard]

Yes, at the moment, multiple versions of packages cannot work stably. So just delete all older versions. Be careful to also delete PackageVersion links for old packages until deep-foundation/npm-packager#47 is done. To do it in code:

const deletePackage = async (packageId) => {
  const packageTypeId = await deep.id('@deep-foundation/core', 'Package');
  const packageVersionTypeId = await deep.id('@deep-foundation/core', 'PackageVersion');

  // Delete the Package link and the PackageVersion link in a single deep.delete call
  const deletedLinks = await deep.delete({
    _or: [
      { to: { id: packageId }, type_id: packageVersionTypeId }, // Delete PackageVersion links
      { id: packageId, type_id: packageTypeId }, // Delete the Package link
    ],
  });

  return deletedLinks;
};

CAUTION: This function does not move PackageActive link to another package, but it should. PackageNamespace is also must be deleted if this is the last package in the PackageNamespace.