'conan create' options

I’m trying to create a package. If it does not have test_package folder, options in conan create . user/channel -o option1=value1 -o option2=value2 ... apply to the package itself. But if test_package is present, the same command line will try to set options for test_package, not the package itself! To work around this one should use conan create . user/channel -o MyPackage:option1=value1 -o MyPackage:option2=value2 ... I think this not very correct behaviour. Don’t you?

[niosHD]

I just stumbled across the same issue with options when I tried to create a package as shared with -o shared=True.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create template with test_package: conan new -t -s foo/0.1
2. Add the missing shared option by modifying the test_package/conanfile.py.
3. Build the package: conan create . bar/testing -o shared=True
4. Lookup what version has been built: conan search foo/0.1@bar/testing

For me this yields a package with shared=False. Without the test_package, on the other hand, everything works as expected and I get a package with shared=True. (e.g., conan new -s foo/0.1 && conan create . bar/testing -o shared=True && conan search foo/0.1@bar/testing)

Conan Version: 1.12.1

[memsharded]

@guiserle yes this is going to be changed in Conan 2.0

This ongoing work for 1.39 is related: https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/9267