Azure Pipelines GitHub Packages Don't Work

Question

Following the instructions here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2020/pipelines/sprint-170-update

Have the following:

  packages:
  - package: MyPkg
    type: NuGet
    connection: github
    name: TheOrg/TheRepo/ThePkg
    version: '*'

and

    - getPackage: MyPkg

Azure Pipelines doesn't seem to get this even remotely correct. I'm not sure how this would have even passed basic testing.

The logs show:

Using authentication information for the following URI: https://nuget.pkg.github.com/{ThePATUser}/index.json

Well that's just wrong...I specified an organization. The user that generated the PAT is not the NuGet feed I'm trying to consume

And then

"C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe" add d:\a\1\Nuget\dotnet\tempCsproj_67.csproj package TheRepo -v * -n

That's clearly just wrong too. Does this feature actually work at all?

I looked at the source code for the task: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/pull/12292/files#diff-6aadc4d5fa0b434a99fe35ba9d3d2ac4R55

and from what I can tell this is just bad logic. Would appreciate confirmation from someone at MS that this code is indeed non-functional.

Answer 1

I can reproduce the same issue. The github package failed to be retrieved using the getPackage step. The feed url is evaluated to the PAT User feed url rather than the organization feed url.

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