paket restore/install resulted in "The profile 'portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81' is not a known profile. Please tell the package author."

[piotr07da]

Description

In paket version 4.8.8 after paket install I have got this:

  Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client (5.2.3)
  Microsoft.Net.Http (>= 2.2.22) - framework: portable-wp80+win+wp81+wpa81
  Newtonsoft.Json (>= 6.0.4) - framework: >= net45, portable-wp80+win+wp81+wpa81

And in this case paket restore returns no errors.

In paket version 5.0.0 after paket install I have got this:

  Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client (5.2.3)
  Microsoft.Net.Http (>= 2.2.22) - restriction: && (< net45) (>= portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81)
  Newtonsoft.Json (>= 6.0.4) - restriction: >= portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81

And in this case paket restore returns:
"The profile 'portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81' is not a known profile. Please tell the package author." error.

Why this is not know profile? Is there way to solve this problem? Currently I installed 4.8.8 version.

Repro steps

1. Create paket.dependencies with:

      nuget Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi 5.2.0
      nuget Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client 5.2.3
      nuget Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core 5.2.3
      nuget Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost 5.2.3
      nuget Microsoft.Net.Http 2.2.22
   

2. Run paket install

[matthid]

The known profiles are listed in http://embed.plnkr.co/03ck2dCtnJogBKHJ9EjY
While we support others those are the well defined ones with separate reference assemblies installed.
We print a warning because using a different profile might indicate a packaging error.
Problematic package is https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client

It is not a paket bug, because nuget apparently can't associate the profile with a known profile either: http://nugettoolsdev.azurewebsites.net/4.0.0/parse-framework?framework=portable-net45%2Bwin8%2Bwp8%2Bwp81%2Bwpa81. Compare this with http://nugettoolsdev.azurewebsites.net/4.3.0-beta1-2418/parse-framework?framework=portable-net45%2Bnetcore45%2Bwpa81%2Bwp8 which detects the 259 profile.

To be honest I'm not a complete expert on this so we might need a nuget expert to clarify. But IMHO one should only use one of the officially supported profiles (because otherwise nuget/msbuild are selecting the next best matching profile anyway if I understood that correctly). Therefore we print the warning at the moment.

Sadly there is currently nothing you can do as a user to get rid of this warning besides not using this package and besides reporting this to the package authors...

[sahgilbert]

I've run into the same problem. Are we any closer to a fix?

[forki]

Is it an official target?

[sahgilbert]

Not quite sure what you mean by that. I'm running Paket version 5.7.2 on Appveyor, and each build seems to just hang after hitting this point -

The profile 'portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81' is not a known profile. Please tell the package author.
Could not detect any platforms from 'xamarintvos10'
Could not detect any platforms from 'xamarinwatchos10'
The profile 'portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81' is not a known profile. Please tell the package author.

[matthid]

@simonalexandergilbert This issue is about the warning, a "hang" is definitely a different issue... Please open a new issue with a verbose log for the hang...

[sahgilbert]

Ok, thank you.

[haf]

How do I know what package paket is warning about? The warning comes at the end of resolving all packages?

[forki]

We're working on a solution Am 15.08.2017 15:18 schrieb "Henrik Feldt" <notifications@github.com>:

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How do I know what package paket is warning about? The warning comes at the end of resolving all packages? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2495 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADgNE9O3Io6gpqZqlRDWX4iT5BYvWYfks5sYZqLgaJpZM4OQ8aq> .

[matthid]

This should be fixed as soon as #2632 is merged.
With "fixed" we mean paket will tell you which package is to blame.