Pack Failure: Failed to retrieve information from remote source 'd:\dump\nuget\issues\x\packages'.

[kingerja]

When running nuget pack under some situations such as not having a nuget.config to load the above error occurs.

Additional info:
[‎8/‎19/‎2016 3:35 PM] Zhi Li:
I found out the reason, because NuGetPackages folder doesn't exist on my disk, nuGet try to get information from that folder

[kingerja]

Repro steps:
robocopy \joshking-main\dump\nuget\issues\3343 d:\temp\nuget\issue\3343
cd /d d:\temp\nuget\issue\3343
nuget.exe pack GatedBalance.csproj

[rrelyea]

If you restore first, this works fine.
We should improve the error message when a packages folder doesn't exist.
Currently: "failed to retrieve information from remote source packages "c:\temp\foo\packages""
Should be better...like "Packages folder ('c:\temp\foo\packages') is missing. Please do a "nuget restore" to fix."

[zhili1208]

Checked with dev branch, this is already fixed in dev branch.