How can I keep nuget from updating dependencies?

Question

I'm attempting to install a nuget package which has incorrectly specified one of it's dependencies. Common.Logging.Log4Net requires log4net = 1.2.10 however the nuget package specifies log4net >= 1.2.10. Even if I manually install the older version of log4net, nuget upgrades log4net to 1.2.11 when I install Common.Logging.Log4Net. How can I get nuget to bypass dependency resolution or at least prefer installed packages of a sufficient version?

Southwester

Answer 1

In order to bypass dependency resolution you can use the -IgnoreDependencies option:

Install-Package -IgnoreDependencies ThePackageName

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You should be able to lock the package to a specific version by hand-editing the packages.config and setting the allowedVersions attribute to indicate the version span you want to allow.

<package id="Common.Logging.Log4Net" version="1.2.10" 
     allowedVersions="[1.2,1.2.10]" />

Note that his will however not upgrade the version of the package at all even when explicitly updating the package.

See the nuget versioning documentation for more info on versioning.

Tracey