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jbyrd
jbyrd

Reputation: 5585

NuGet packages getting installed to the wrong folder

I'm working on a Xamarin.Forms PCL mobile app in Visual Studio 2017, using project.json for package management (I'm not using PackageReference, since Visual Studio 2017 is required for that, and some of our team are still using Visual Studio 2015). I have multiple projects within the solution, and I have multiple branches of the project, like so:

MobileApp/
    packages/ <<--- (I want nuget packages to be installed here)
    Branches/
        DevBranchSolution/
            MobileApp.sln
            nuget.config
            ProjectA/
            ProjectB/

I want all my (projects / solutions / branches) to be able to reference packages from a single location, so you'll notice I've added the packages folder at the root level in the MobileApp folder. I have a nuget.config file per solution that looks something like:

nuget.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <config>
        <add key="repositoryPath" value="..\..\packages" />
    </config>
    <packageSources>
        <clear />
        <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
        <add key="CustomPackagesLocation" value="..\..\packages" />
    </packageSources>
  <disabledPackageSources />
</configuration>

In Visual Studio when I right-click on the solution, click "Manage NuGet Packages For Solution...", and install a package (e.g. Newtonsoft.Json), I would expect that it would install those package files inside my MobileApp/packages/ folder, the location I set in the solution's nuget.config. But it doesn't. Instead the files are getting put into the global NuGet packages location, which is %USERPROFILE%\.nuget\packages.

Why? Shouldn't my nuget.config file be overriding that? I have verified that when I go to Package Manager Settings, the location of CustomPackagesLocation is correct, but apparently the repositoryPath setting doesn't seem to affect anything.

I also noticed that inside the project.json.lock and Project.nuget.targets files, the package folder is set to the global NuGet packages location (the %USERPROFILE%/.nuget/packages one). Why? Where is it pulling this value from??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5485

Answers (2)

Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson

Reputation: 1081

I had a very similar problem where it wasn't using the packages folder for a class library. For some reason my csproj file had set for a few assemblies. I removed this line and did a update-package -reinstall -project myclasslibrary and it worked again just fine.

I'm not sure what set the HintPath in the first place.

Upvotes: 0

Leo Liu
Leo Liu

Reputation: 76760

Why? Where is it pulling this value from??

The default packages directory for Project.json file is %USERPROFILE%/.nuget/packages and project.json project doesn't support repositoryPath config now. This is the reason why you have changed the repositoryPath, but NuGet still put packages into the global NuGet packages location. You can refer to the same issue on GitHub.

If you want to change packages default location for project.json, you can set "NUGET_PACKAGES" environment variable. Just Set "NUGET_PACKAGES" = "....\packages". Or you can place a NuGet.Config file next to the solution with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <configuration>
    <config>
      <add key="globalPackagesFolder" value="..\..\packages" />
    </config>
 </configuration>

See NuGet.Config reference for details on config section.

Upvotes: 3

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