VSTS Marketplace Task doesn't work in a Linux build agent

[dracan]

Looks like the VSTS build task doesn't work in a "Linux Preview" build agent. I'm using Linux containers, Docker, and AKS - so need to use the Linux build agent. Are there any other options for using GitVersion in VSTS?

Thanks for any help with this - awesome work with GitVersion btw! :)

[gep13]

@dracan thanks for raising this.

As you have spotted, the Azure Pipelines (formerly known as VSTS) Task for GitVersion currently only supports Windows Build Agents.

There have been discussions about updating the Task to support more operating systems, and I believe the plan is to finalise the migration to .NET Core/Standard, and from there, update the external tooling to support it, including updating the Task, etc.

[pascalberger]

The Azure DevOps task itself should be cross-plattform since #1189 where it was rewritten from using a PowerShell script to using Node scripts. This version is not released on the marketplace yet though.

The other issue is GitVersion itself and its dependencies as @gep13 has pointed out

[gep13]

@pascalberger where was that change merged to?

Looking at the current master branch:

https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/tree/master/src/GitVersionTfsTask

It is still the PowerShell version.

[pascalberger]

@gep13 This uses the node engine: https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/blob/master/src/GitVersionTfsTask/task.json#L70_L74

The powershell scripts in there are only for building and packaging the task.

Or where do you see that it uses PowerShell?

[gep13]

Oh, hold on... Sorry, I completely read that wrong. Ok, move along, nothing to see here 😄

[pascalberger]

The script executed by the tasks is this one, which has some OS specific code in here: https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/blob/master/src/GitVersionTfsTask/GitVersion.ts#L42-L47

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[dracan]

Just adding a comment to stop this issue from being closed by the stale bot.

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[evanrobertson]

Is there any progress or planned progress on this issue?

[arturcic]

@evanrobertson can you try the new extension? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gittools.usegitversion-preview

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[NightFox7]

Is there any progress or planned progress on this issue?

[arturcic]

@NightFox7
can you try this one https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gittools.usegitversion

[NightFox7]

I got this error:

2020-02-04T13:07:11.1237309Z --------------------------
2020-02-04T13:07:11.1237597Z Installing GitVersion.Tool version 5.x
2020-02-04T13:07:11.1237880Z --------------------------
2020-02-04T13:07:11.1239306Z Found tool in cache: GitVersion.Tool 5.1.3 x64
2020-02-04T13:07:11.1284425Z ##[error]Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, readlink ''

using this config

    steps:
      - task: gittools.usegitversion.gitversion-task.UseGitVersion@5
        displayName: GitVersion
        inputs:
          versionSpec: 5.x

[NightFox7]

@arturcic I had to install dotnet core on my linux build agent and now it works. Thanks !

[arturcic]

great! Closing this issue

[Vijay-Nirmal]

Still getting this error

--------------------------
Installing GitVersion.Tool version 5.x
--------------------------
Found tool in cache: GitVersion.Tool 5.2.4 x64
##[error]Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, readlink '/appdata/agent/_work/_tool/dotnet/dotnet'

I have installed dotnet core as mentioned by @NightFox7. This is my Build Task to install dotnet core on my linux build agent. I have tried with vertion 3.1.100, 3.0.103, 2.2.203

- task: UseDotNet@2
  displayName: 'Install .NET Core sdk'
  inputs:
    packageType: sdk
    version: 3.1.100
    installationPath: $(Agent.ToolsDirectory)/dotnet