Package has all files needed (checked with NuGet Packages Explorer)
Pushing packges to a Nuget server.
Creating a new release with specified nuget package.
Release step is almost configuerd like in video tutorial.
Start deploying. (Everything fine no errors).
Now problem starts.
Looking into directory where the nuget package is extraced, but there are only few files. All Folders and subfolders are missing.
Looked in the cached nuget packaged folder where deploy process copies the files. (path was looked up from raw log). Checked with NuGet Package Explorer, package explorer shows alle files with folders and subfolders.
So how can i check what command is used to extract the nuget package or why it is not extracting the folders/subfolder in the package (extracting only files in root folder)?
I send you an email with the raw log and included the NuGet-Package, so maybe you can reproduce it better.
Deployment is only extracting 5 files from root folder. (favicon.ico, Global.asax, Web.config, Web.Debug.config, Web.Release.config)
Thanks for sending your package file and log. I’ve taken a look, and I even set up a project with a Tentacle, and deployed your .nupkg file to it. I used the ‘Custom Installation Directory’ setting to have it copied to a folder called C:\Test01. After the deployment, I can see that all the files have been extracted (see attached).
However, there is one difference. When my Tentacle gets the package and hashes it, I see:
82d68eb1209c922b9c1b79789802c6009bce0261
However in your log, the hash is:
db0a6b0f46556f8af2a69900b4a1f8917d2978f9
This means that the package file that you emailed me is not exactly the same as the one your NuGet server is giving to your Octopus/Tentacle.
Is it possible that you already created a package with that version number and uploaded it to the server, and overwrote it later?
What NuGet server are you using?
Can you try scheduling another deployment, but check the “Re-download packages from the NuGet server” checkbox and see if that makes a difference?
yes i modified the package, i removed sensible data from it with package explorer. So only config files are modified nothing else.
I already tried the redownload option and I also tried different deployment options, also without ‘Custom Installation Directory’.
I recently updated the deployment server from 2.1 to 2.3.3 and had diffuculties to update, is it possible if something went wrong?!
Can I make a clean fresh installation of octopus server and use my backup made by current octopus server.
Can you upgrade to this version and see if the problem is fixed? I suspect that we may be encountering a bug when the package file is extracted, but this error isn’t logged. We fixed this behavior in 2.3.4
Deployed new package and created new release. Still same result.
As I mentioned before, I double checked if there is some problem with nugget package or nuget server (I user proget server), but the downloaded packages conatins full content. Thre must be somting going wrong durning extracting the package.
Can you try creating a new project, and adding the step to your deployment process for this package, but with none of the built-in features enabled - no package copy, no XML variable replacement, etc. Then create and deploy the release, and see what files get extracted?
Is there any way you can deploy the same package to a different Tentacle, e.g. one in a completely different environment with a different conifiguration? There’s always a chance something is GAC’ed on the target machine, which can cause problems.
I tried what you suggested and it worked and I was also curious so I reverted it again and tested again and it still worked so I was confused why it still works.
Then I made some additional researches and tried to reinvestigate all hints you gave. And finally I found the problem, it was a miss configuration.
I used with OctoPack the parameter “OctoPackNuGetExePath” and the resulting “exe” was 2 release behind the actual NuGet release. So I updated it and voila everything worked as expected
So thank you very much to took so much time to help me
I developed a small GUI to OctoPack visual studio projects so this app do not require that a user installs OctoPack package in his/her project. The app is extending the build configuration and adding the build steps that are required to OctoPack a project. And for Database projects with EF it also includes scripts to update to latest migration. So the aim of this small project was that the user projects still remain unaware of deployment files and packages.
If you are interested to take a look on it let me know. Maybe you consider to include in OctoPack
with package explorer. So only config files are modified nothing else.
