[macOS] dotnet publish cannot write pkg file

[xperiandri]

Description

When I call dotnet publish -f net6.0-macos /p:_platformName=macOS -r osx-x64 I get error productbuild directory "bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/publish" does not exist for writing "Transmission.Client.Mobile-1.0.pkg".

Reproduction Steps

1. Create Uno Platform app .NET 6 from template
2. Add <TargetFrameworks Condition="'$(_PlatformName)' == 'macOS'">net6.0-macos</TargetFrameworks> to Mobile.csproj
3. Call dotnet publish -f net6.0-macos /p:_platformName=macOS -r osx-x64

Expected behavior

pkg file creates successfully

Actual behavior

Error productbuild directory "bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/publish" does not exist for writing "Transmission.Client.Mobile-1.0.pkg".

Regression?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Configuration

No response

Other information

I suppose that command line arguments are incorrect CommandLineArguments = /usr/bin/productbuild --product /Users/xperiandri/Projects/ITM/Client/Client.Mobile/obj/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/Product.plist --component bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/publish/Transmission.Client.Mobile.app /Applications bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/publish/Transmission.Client.Mobile-1.0.pkg

And the path bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/publish/Transmission.Client.Mobile-1.0.pkg is calculated not from csproj file but from some other path

t.macOS.binlog.zip

I couldn't figure out the best area label to add to this issue. If you have write-permissions please help me learn by adding exactly one area label.

[Juriyx]

Also /p:OutDir is not taken into account
Instead of /p:OutDir=$(build.binariesdirectory)/$(BuildConfiguration) which expand to /p:OutDir=/Users/runner/work/1/b/Release
used an expanded path to the default location relative to csproj /Users/runner/work/1/a/../s/Client/Client.Mobile/bin/Release/net6.0-macos/osx-x64/Transmission.Client.Mobile.app/Contents/MacOS//Transmission.Client.Mobile

Normal.txt
Verbose.zip

[Juriyx]

What I wanted to achive is that
[command]/Users/runner/hostedtoolcache/dotnet/dotnet publish /Users/runner/work/1/s/Client/Client.Mobile/Transmission.Client.Mobile.csproj -v:n -f net6.0-macos --no-restore /p:_PlatformName=macOS -c Release /p:OutDir=/Users/runner/work/1/b/Release -o /Users/runner/work/1/a /p:BuildProjectReferences=false

binaries appear in /p:OutDir=/Users/runner/work/1/b/Release binaries directory
and a pkg installer in -o /Users/runner/work/1/a artifacts directory

[TanayParikh]

I'm seeing this as well with Maui Blazor Hybrid:

dotnet publish -f net6.0-maccatalyst -c Release

[marcpopMSFT]

Old issue triage: @dalexsoto this is the macos publishing out of the ios workload, right? Is this still an issue?