Unable to publish on command line using publish profile

[abbeycode]

I'm trying to automate the publishing of a .Net Core app on the Mac/Linux command line using the "dotnet" tool. No command I've tried has resulted in the project getting published to the folder the publish profile specifies. The publish profile works when I use Visual Studio for Mac to directly publish the project. I've tried many variations of both the dotnet publish -p:PublishProfile=... command and also dotnet build -p:DeployOnBuild=True -p:PublishProfile=.... It looks like it's silently ignoring the PublishProfile I give it, and indeed the output doesn't look materially different if I give it an intentionally bad path.

I've tried specifying the csproj and not, pwd in the solution directory and in the project directory, and nothing seems to work except using Visual Studio instead of the dotnet CLI.

I'm running on a Mac running 10.15.5, and CentOS 7, both with dotnet 3.1.301.

My publish profile is the default folder publishing profile, named Properties/PublishProfiles/DockerImage.pubxml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <WebPublishMethod>FileSystem</WebPublishMethod>
    <LastUsedBuildConfiguration>Release</LastUsedBuildConfiguration>
    <LastUsedPlatform>AnyCPU</LastUsedPlatform>
    <publishUrl>docker-image</publishUrl>
    <DeleteExistingFiles>true</DeleteExistingFiles>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <SelfContained>false</SelfContained>
    <_IsPortable>true</_IsPortable>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

I see this output, indicating the app was published to the default directory instead of the docker-image folder I specified:

> dotnet publish -p:PublishProfile=ProjectName/Properties/PublishProfiles/DockerImage.pubxml

  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  ProjectName -> /Users/dfrankel/Projects/Solution Name/ProjectName/bin/Debug/netcoreapp3.1/ProjectName.dll
  ProjectName -> /Users/dfrankel/Projects/Solution Name/ProjectName/bin/Debug/netcoreapp3.1/publish/

[abbeycode]

Any help would be appreciated (including whether I may have posted this on the wrong project – I thought it was the right one when I posted). I'm totally stuck and can't find anything I'm doing wrong.

[javiercn]

@abbeycode thanks for contacting us.

We'll route this to the right people and we'll come back to you.

@vijayrkn can you take a look at this?

[vijayrkn]

@abbeycode can you pass /bl in the command line and please share the binlog(https://github.com/KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog)?

@wli3 This issue should be in the sdk repo. The code that deals with publish is in websdk.

[abbeycode]

@vijayrkn I've attached the binlog. Thanks for taking a look!

[abbeycode]

@vijayrkn @javiercn @wli3 Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help resolve this.

[vijayrkn]

@abbeycode - I will take a look today and get back before the end of day.

[vijayrkn]

@abbeycode - I looked at the binlog but the publish profile is not imported

If you pass in the publish profile name, it should get imported here -

sdk/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.ImportPublishProfile.targets

Line 19 in f98197d

<PublishProfileName Condition="'$(PublishProfileName)' == '' and '$(PublishProfile)' != ''">$([System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($(PublishProfile)))</PublishProfileName>

Can you share the whole project & the exact command that you ran?

Ideally you will only have to run this:
dotnet build -p:DeployOnBuild=True -p:PublishProfile=DockerImage

[abbeycode]

I ran this command, though I also tried the one you gave with the same results (dotnet build OneDriveConnector -p:DeployOnBuild=True -p:PublishProfile=FolderProfile):

dotnet publish OneDriveConnector -p:PublishProfile=OneDriveConnector/Properties/PublishProfiles/FolderProfile.pubxml

I've attached the project, as it currently stands. I have also tried both commands without specifying the project name.

OneDrive Connector.zip

Updated binlog from the dotnet build OneDriveConnector -p:DeployOnBuild=True -p:PublishProfile=FolderProfile command

[vijayrkn]

The name of your profile is docker-image.

So the command should be

dotnet publish -p:PublishProfile=docker-image

[abbeycode]

Apologies, I've been trying so many permutations of naming and commands I forgot where I had left off. When I call dotnet publish -p:PublishProfile=docker-image or dotnet build -p:DeployOnBuild=True -p:PublishProfile=docker-image, I still get the same result.

msbuild.binlog.zip