The official build doesn't produce Crossgen2 pack RPM or Debian packages

[dagood]

The official build produces e.g. dotnet-crossgen2-pack-5.0.0-alpha.1.20071.1-win-x64.msi, but no corresponding dotnet-crossgen2-pack-5.0.0-alpha.1.20071.1-win-x64.rpm or .deb for use on Linux. These are required for the SDK to incorporate them properly--I think not having them will make it harder to integrate SDK support.

I'm taking a look, I would expect these to be created.

/cc @fadimounir @dotnet/crossgen-contrib

[dagood]

I think it's because of this line:

runtime/src/installer/pkg/projects/netcoreapp/pkg/crossgenRIDs.props

Line 5 in 4e72737

<BuildOnUnknownPlatforms>false</BuildOnUnknownPlatforms>

The Debian package production step runs as ubuntu.14.04, which isn't in the list of valid RIDs. Same for rhel.7 and RPMs.

I think a simple fix would be to add ubuntu.14.04 and rhel.7 to the list of RIDs in that file. That doesn't really represent what's going on, though--we're actually packaging up linux bits.

I'm going to try using a target to manipulate the process instead, and have it condition based on InstallerSourceOSPlatformConfig = linux-x64.Release passed in during lab builds. That's the RID that actually matches up with the content here.

[jkotas]

.msi

Does it mean that I need to be an admin to install crossgen2?

I though that crossgen2 is going to be a nuget package, and you will acquire it by adding a nuget package reference somewhere.

[dagood]

It's both, the .msi is there so that it can be chained into the SDK Windows installer. Similar for Deb/RPM, they require admin to install, but can be depended on by the SDK RPM/Debs. If the user doesn't install it through these methods, it'll be acquired from nuget.org. (From some .NET 5 dev feed prior to release.)

We may decide not to include the crossgen2 pack in any SDK installation method, like runtime packs. Didn't actually consider that before... I don't object to doing a little work now to keep it unblocked though.

[jkotas]

I think the only packaging for crossgen2 we need to worry about is nuget. .msi/.rpm./.deb does not matter for foreseeable future or ever.

[dagood]

Ok, thanks. It makes sense to me for this to be similar to the runtime packs in that way. I'll go ahead and close and note that on #1867.