DotNetCoreCLI - Pack missing doc & wierd usage

[Herve-M]

Note

This could be related to issue #9789

Required Information

Question, Feature?
Type: Feature / Cleaning
Enter Task Name: DotNetCoreCLIV2

Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines
• Agent - Hosted

Issue Description

DotNetCoreCLI@2 provide a documented way for packing, who is I think mispelling / hard to get into / easier to get lost.

Like:

- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  displayName: 'Pack - Manager'
  inputs:
    command: 'pack'
    projects: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/src/CM/CM.csproj'
    includesymbols: true
    includesource: true
    nobuild: true
    verbosityPack: 'normal'
    outputDir: '$(Build.StagingDirectory)'

projects won't be used during pack cmd and will be override by searchPatternPack who is required but has a default. And it seem to have one alias packagesToPack who is not set or documented.

[Trolldemorted]

I just lost several hours because of this bug. Could you emit a warning if projects is used in combination with pack and link to this issue @sachinma ?

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[dferretti]

Also I think there are differences between projects and searchPatternPack - I am able to pass a multiline string to projects for a restore or build command, but not pack. For example I am trying to build a reusable template to restore/build/pack like this:

parameters:
- name: projects
  type: string
steps:
- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  inputs:
    command: restore
    projects: ${{ parameters.projects }} # other options omitted
- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  inputs:
    command: build
    projects: ${{ parameters.projects }}
- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  inputs:
    command: pack
    searchPatternPack: ${{ parameters.projects }}

however, if I try to use this template with a multiline string, only restore and build succeed:

variables:
  projects: |
    some/project/A.csproj
    other/project/B.csproj
- template: my-template
  parameters:
    projects: $(projects)

Those 2 projects will be found by the restore and build tasks and work fine, but the pack task seems to use different logic for discovering projects and requires a ; separated string instead of newline. So it will fail saying No files matched the search pattern

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