Add OIDC token exchange for NuGet trusted publishing#34
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The NuGet/login action exchanges the GitHub OIDC token for a short-lived API key, which is required for trusted publishing to work.
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Summary
The
publish_nuget.ymlworkflow hadid-token: writepermission but was never exchanging the GitHub OIDC token for a temporary NuGet API key. As a result,dotnet nuget pushfell back to the v2 endpoint and failed with a 401.Changes
NuGet/login@v1step to exchange OIDC token for short-lived API key--api-keyto bothdotnet nuget pushcommandsRoot Cause
Without the
NuGet/loginstep, there was no API key in scope.dotnet nuget pushwith-sbut no--api-keydoesn't use the v3 endpoint for trusted publishing — it falls back to v2 (https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package) which requires a traditional API key.Fixes the
Publish NuGetCI job failure from run #24851085466.