TeamCity - Building dotnet core web api project using cake script

Question

Running Cake Build script on my local machine works fine but when same script is run on TeamCity, the following error appears: Nuspec file does not exist in package.

Any idea what could have caused this error?

Wojak

go to the packages folder on your hard drive and delete all its contents. After that restore packages – Lineup

@SeniorPomidor I tried this but I am still getting this error. When I build the project from the TeamCity/Works directory using the build.cake file, it build successfully. – Wojak

then just build from this directory. – Lineup

@SeniorPomidor I want TeamCity to trigger the build automatically rather than running it manually. – Wojak

I want to say just set the working directory as TeamCity/Works. and build – Lineup

I had a similar problem with TFS 2017. Build was always red with same message, but when I tried in a console, it worked. Turns out that the reason why it worked was my user: When I started the console with the same user the build uses, I got the same error. So I deleted everything in <builduser home>/.nuget/packages/*, after that the build worked again. – Kv

Answer 1

I spent two days due to this error On dotnet build --configuration Release in TeamCity PowerShell, always got this error

error NU5000: Nuspec file does not exist in package

After deleting this folder, everything worked C:/Users/teamcity_user/.nuget

Berte

Thanks for saving me 2 days ;) – Thun

Answer 2

I add an additional step on top of my build steps which is a command line custom script

dotnet nuget locals --clear all

Milkman