As part of Web application deployment process, I wanted to replace an appsettings variable (updateUrl) in an MyApp.exe.config file. Config variable replacement is working when the .config is inside the deploying package.
But my scenario is different. I have the .config file way inside the .nupkg which is present in my main deploying package as shown.
What I understand is that octopus will not search for a config file present inside a .nupkg file. Is there an any way to update the variable inside .nupkg config file.
I am using Octopus Deploy version 2018.2.5
Thanks for getting in touch!. Yes, you are correct. That being said, can you provide me a bit more context regarding what is the end result you are looking for? Would it be ok if the nested nuget package MyApp-1.0.1-full was deployed using a separate step in the deployment process?
Hi,
Firstly, thanks for confirming that replacing the variables inside nested .nupkg is not possible.
So, what I am trying to achieve is deploying releases folder generated by squirrel.windows to IIS webapps of different client environments.
In detail I am looking for something like this:
-There is a generic nuget package as input which consists of: one or more nested nuget packages along with other files. (The number of nested .nupkg packages differ with each version)
-This generic nuget package has to be deployed to IIS website of the client environments.
-During deployment I want to change the appsettings values depending the client environment parameters.
Please note that as the nested nuget packages differ at each version, I cannot deploy this nested package (MyApp-1.0.1-full.nupkg or the others ) through separate step in the process.
If I understand correctly you want to preform variable substitution without extracting the nuget package. If that’s the case then unfortunately I don’t think this can be done.
The simplest solution I can think of is to unpack each package to a known location, perform variable substitution manually and then pack it back. This all can be done using nuget.exe.
