Copying content files does not work

[andyleejordan]

While it appears implemented in dotnet/cli#61, I can't get my content files to be copied correctly on Linux.

I have (literally, as a test) in my project.json

    "content": [ "foo" ],

And then publish with dotnet publish --framework dnxcore50 --runtime ubuntu.14.04-x64 --output ../../bin, but no foo is in ../../bin.

While the publish succeeds and I get the DLLs, the content files are not copied over (likewise for content sections in projects that this project depends on).

Any ideas? As a workaround right now I added cp steps to the end of my publish script, but content ought to work.

[andyleejordan]

Here's a simple repro:

project.json

{
    "version": "1.0.0-*",
    "content": [ "foo" ],
    "frameworks": {
        "dnxcore50": { }
    }
}

foo

bar

steps

$ uname -a
Linux machine 3.19.0-37-generic dotnet/cli#42~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 23 15:13:51 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache show dotnet
Version: 1.0.16776.1449511470-1

$ dotnet restore
Microsoft .NET Development Utility CoreClr-x64-1.0.0-rc1-16048

  CACHE https://www.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/
  CACHE https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/
Restoring packages for /home/andrew/test/project.json
Writing lock file /home/andrew/test/project.lock.json
Restore complete, 337ms elapsed

NuGet Config files used:
    /home/andrew/.config/NuGet/NuGet.config
    /home/andrew/nuget.config

Feeds used:
    https://www.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/
    https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/

$ dotnet publish --framework dnxcore50 --runtime ubuntu.14.04-x64 --output test-out
Publishing test for DNXCore,Version=v5.0/ubuntu.14.04-x64
Compiling test for DNXCore,Version=v5.0
/home/andrew/test/warning CS2008: No source files specified.
/home/andrew/test/warning CS8021: No value for RuntimeMetadataVersion found. No assembly containing System.Object was found nor was a value for RuntimeMetadataVersion specified t
hrough options.                                                                                                                                                                              

Compilation succeeded.
    2 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

Time elapsed 00:00:00.8596204

Published to test-out

$ ls test-out/
test.dll  test.pdb

But foo is missing.

[davidfowl]

This whole automagic copy feature will go away and instead will be implemented as https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/66

[andyleejordan]

Directories of scripts that need to be copied to the output directory with the same folder structure.

Precisely what I need. Thanks for the info @davidfowl! I'll keep working around with my own scripts for now.