Pre-release tag in packages causing failed auto release creation - Again

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Hi,
it seems that the closed issue “Pre-release tag in packages causing failed auto release creation” (https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/1512) is still present in our Octopus 3.2.24; as a matter of fact our problem it’s similar to the one definied here: http://help.octopusdeploy.com/discussions/problems/30146-failed-to-find-latest-version-for-package

Our scenario:

  • vs solution that contain 2 project (A and B) that contains OctoPack (packages will have version in format .-
  • tfs 2015 build server vNext
  • A is the first package pushed in built-in NuGet Gallery, B is the last
  • Octopus configured to create release automatically when project B is pushed to built-in nuget gallery
  • Error in Octopus: “Unable to automatically create a release for project ‘X’ when package B version 20160307.093503-dev1 was pushed: Failed to find latest version for package A”

Can you help me?

Thanks in advance.
Carlo

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Hi Carlo,

Thanks for getting in touch. We believe this behaviour is occurring because Octopus is looking for a stable version of project A.

Octopus will only ever pickup the latest stable builds for every other package apart from the one you push. So if you push a pre-release package (in this case package B), Octopus assumes you want stable releases for every other package in the release. We had to make this assumption because other packages in a release may or may not have pre-release tags.

Can you confirm that you only have a pre-release version of Package A available?

Hope that helps!
Mark

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Yes, I confirm that we only have pre-release version of Package A; we are using pre-release tag for specify the source branch of our package, ex: 20160308.0919-dev1 or 20160308.0919-main. In this way, we would like to use Octopus as a internal Continuos Delivery server, not only as a Deploy server.
So, the only way to achive our purpose is switch-off automatic release and write a ps task in TFS Build Definition that create a release in Octopus server through octo.exe. Is it correct?

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Hi Carlo,

If you are on the latest version of TFS, you can import Octopus build steps via a custom task.

Are you running the latest version of TFS?

Cheers
Mark