I’ve failed to find the correct syntax to do this after scouring the docs and the forum…
In Octopus I have added additional script step at the end to an existing project to run a script from a utility package that is published to the internal repository from another build.
TeamCity normally creates automatically a release at each build for that project that I modified and is automatically creating a release with the following Octo parameters:
after introducing that last step in the Octopus I had to specify the version of the package used in the newly added step since it is not part of the TeamCity build so changed it to the following which also works as expected:
Thanks for reaching out! If you don’t pass the --package parameter at all, It’ll always pick the latest version available for that package ID. Could you try this and let me know if it has the desired result?
If it doesn’t, please send me your full TeamCity build log so I can check what’s going on.
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which tells Octopus to use the current build which version that is also being published to the Octopus repository. Since the last step I added included a package that is not part of this build I got a failure creating the release because Octopus was looking for --packageversion instruction for all packages including the one from last step I added let’s call it LastStepPkgId which is not part of this build so the error was: Coudn’t find LastStepPkgId-<%releasever%-%teamcity.build.branch%> …
That is why, I decided to use a specific version by adding --package LastStepPkgId:1.0.12 and it worked but I had to hard code the version here.
I guess my question is Can I still explicitly use --packageversion ... and also explicitly ask for latest version of --package LastStepPkgId:<LatestVersion>?
However following your suggestion I removed both --packageversion and --package everything works as expected - using the latest packages available - THANK YOU!
I guess my question still stands as I want to know if I can specify a version for all packages and use --package to assign latest version for one package in my case…
I’m glad to hear things are working as expected now
The parameter --packageVersion is an alias of --DefaultPackageVersion, which has a more helpful name to understand its usage.
Lets say you are using 3 packages, but you want to use the fixed version 1.0.0 of 2 pacakges for all your releases, and the latest for the 3rd package. In that case you should combine --DefaultPackageVersion and --package like this:
Is it possible to say “latest available version” in package parameter after stepname: instead of specifying version? --package="StepNameOf3rdPackage: ????"
The way to approach this would be to pass --package=name:%releasever%-%teamcity.build.branch% for each package that you want to use the current build package, and don’t pass any other parameters. This would mean that all the other packages would simply use their latest version available.
