Question about Normalized Version Numbers and third party Nuget server (ProGet)

[jschroed]

Description

paket does not search for 4-digit version numbers when a 3-digit version number is specified. Is this the expected behavior?

Repro steps

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. I a package, SqlTableDependency: 4.1.1, and uploaded it to a ProGet server.

2. ProGet automatically appends .0 to make it a 4-digit version 4.1.1.0. (They said this is to comply with NuGet version 3.4 change for normalized version numbers: http://docs.nuget.org/Create/Versioning#Normalized_Version_Numbers.)

3. I run paket update and it I get this error message

   Could not resolve package SqlTableDependency:

   • Dependencies file requested package SqlTableDependency: 4.1.1
   • Available versions:
     • (4.1.1.0, [https:///nuget/])

Expected behavior

I was expecting 4.1.1 to work (not realizing that ProGet was changing it to 4.1.1.0).

Actual behavior

Specifying 4.1.1 fails to find 4.1.1.0 for the package.

Known workarounds

It works when I specify 4.1.1.0. (Is this the proper way to do it?)

Related information

• paket version 3.4.0 (or 3.4.0.0)
• possibly related ticket: Issue with paket and third party Nuget server when revision number is zero #1239

[cdrnet]

The way I understand that section in the NuGet docs, appending .0 in the response would explicitly make it not comply. Also, according to that section, Paket should not add a zero 4th-part on requests. Am I missing something?

[forki]

Yes the normalization is in the opposite direction and would remove the
trailing zero.

That said: I consider this a bug in paket. We need to check for the
denormalized version on 3rd party servers. Is there a way for me to
reproduce this on your server?
On Jul 1, 2016 7:15 AM, "Christoph Ruegg" notifications@github.com wrote:

The way I understand that section in the NuGet docs, appending .0 in the
response would explicitly make it not comply. Am I missing something?

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[forki]

tbf it's probably not a "bug", but I'm happy to fix it as usability issue.

[jschroed]

Thanks forki. I appreciate the change even though it's not a bug in paket.

Our server is internal to our company so I won't be able to give access. I can try a test version of paket or get you some debugging info if needed though. You can also get a trial license for ProGet but I think it would take some time to get setup.

[jschroed]

Also, I am able to build paket so I can add some debug lines or get some information that way.

[forki]

cool. let me know if I can help

[rasmus]

We are also experiencing this problem with the Owin package. Paket does the following request to the ProGet feed

http://nuget-server/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')

and doesn't find any packages. However, if I edit the search URL to this, it does find it.

http://nuget-server/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0')

I created a ticket at ProGet, but got this reply in retrun.

The other issue (1.0.0 vs 1.0) is an expected behavior. The situation is that "1.0", "1.0.0", "1.00.0", etc. were considered different version numbers up until NuGet Client v3.4. This was a breaking change that we carefully worked with the NuGet/Microsoft team to roll out.

Many packages and organizations rely on this very peculiar behavior, and they also are in a situation where they cannot easily upgrade their ProGet (or older server), so very it's important that Packet follows the same logic that NuGet does; first search for the "normalized" version (1.0.0), then search for the requested version (1.0).

☝️ please provide a fix as this is critical for our usage of Paket. For now the workaround is to put the Owin package into the NuGet cache locally. However this is very frustrating as we re-create our build images quite often.

[forki]

@rasmus where is the 1.0 coming from? Do you have a repro for us?

[rasmus]

@forki I can't provide a repo as the code is IP. But I cut the following snippets from our lock file if that helps.

    Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Owin (5.2.3)
      Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core (>= 5.2.3 < 5.3)
      Microsoft.Owin (>= 2.0.2)
      Owin (>= 1.0)
...
    Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics (3.1.0)
      Microsoft.Owin (>= 3.1)
      Owin (>= 1.0)
...
    Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb (3.1.0)
      Microsoft.Owin (>= 3.1)
      Owin (>= 1.0)
...
    Microsoft.Owin.Security.OpenIdConnect (3.1.0)
      Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocol.Extensions (>= 1.0)
      Microsoft.Owin (>= 3.1)
      Microsoft.Owin.Security (>= 3.1)
      Owin (>= 1.0)
      System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt (>= 4.0)
...
    Owin (1.0.0)

[forki]

And you are sure paket is not trying Owin 1.0 as one of the fallbacks? That would be weird.
/cc @matthid

[rasmus]

@forki Here's the log from our build

[13:37:56][Step 1/1] Checking Paket version (downloading latest stable)...
[13:37:57][Step 1/1] Copying version 5.84.0 from cache.
[13:37:57][Step 1/1] Done.
[13:37:59][Step 1/1] Paket version 5.84.0
[13:38:01][Step 1/1] The profile 'portable-net45+win8+wp8+wp81+wpa81' is not a known profile. Please tell the package author.
[13:38:02][Step 1/1] Downloading Owin 1.0.0
[13:38:19][Step 1/1] Something failed in GetPackageDetails, trying again with force: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://nuget-server/nuget/Default.
[13:38:36][Step 1/1] Something went wrong while downloading Owin 1.0.0
[13:38:36][Step 1/1] Message: Could not download Owin 1.0.0.
[13:38:36][Step 1/1]   ==> Trying again
[13:38:36][Step 1/1] Downloading Owin 1.0.0
[13:38:47][Step 1/1] Something failed in GetPackageDetails, trying again with force: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://nuget-server/nuget/Default.
[13:39:03][Step 1/1] Something went wrong while downloading Owin 1.0.0
[13:39:03][Step 1/1] Message: Could not download Owin 1.0.0.
[13:39:03][Step 1/1]   ==> Last trial
[13:39:03][Step 1/1] Downloading Owin 1.0.0
[13:39:20][Step 1/1] Something failed in GetPackageDetails, trying again with force: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://nuget-server/nuget/Default.
[13:39:34][Step 1/1] Performance:
[13:39:35][Step 1/1]  - Disk IO: 24 seconds
[13:39:35][Step 1/1]  - Average Request Time: 5 seconds
[13:39:35][Step 1/1]  - Number of Requests: 18
[13:39:35][Step 1/1]  - Runtime: 1 minute, 36 seconds
[13:39:35][Step 1/1] Paket failed with
[13:39:35][Step 1/1] -> Could not download Owin 1.0.0.
[13:39:35][Step 1/1] -> Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://nuget-server/nuget/Default.

[rasmus]

@forki Did a .paket/paket.exe restore -v hope it helps

Paket version 5.84.0
found: C:\git\Ecgdk.Bilbasen.Search\paket.dependencies
Parsing C:\git\Ecgdk.Bilbasen.Search\paket.dependencies

[CUT: a lot of packages]

Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:08Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:12Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:15Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
GetPackageDetails failed: System.Exception: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default.
   at Paket.Utils.rethrowf@31.Invoke(String msg)
   at Paket.NuGet.getPackageDetails@336-13.Invoke(Unit unitVar)
   at Microsoft.FSharp.Control.AsyncBuilderImpl.callA@839.Invoke(AsyncParams`1 args)
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:18Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:22Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:27Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
Something went wrong while downloading Owin 1.0.0
Message: Could not download Owin 1.0.0.
  ==> Trying again
Downloading Owin 1.0.0
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:33Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:39Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:44Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
GetPackageDetails failed: System.Exception: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default.
   at Paket.Utils.rethrowf@31.Invoke(String msg)
   at Paket.NuGet.getPackageDetails@336-13.Invoke(Unit unitVar)
   at Microsoft.FSharp.Control.AsyncBuilderImpl.callA@839.Invoke(AsyncParams`1 args)
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:48Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:52Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:19:58Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
Something went wrong while downloading Owin 1.0.0
Message: Could not download Owin 1.0.0.
  ==> Last trial
Downloading Owin 1.0.0
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:03Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:07Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:13Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
GetPackageDetails failed: System.Exception: Couldn't get package details for package Owin 1.0.0 on http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default.
   at Paket.Utils.rethrowf@31.Invoke(String msg)
   at Paket.NuGet.getPackageDetails@336-13.Invoke(Unit unitVar)
   at Microsoft.FSharp.Control.AsyncBuilderImpl.callA@839.Invoke(AsyncParams`1 args)
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (NormalizedVersion eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:16Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with Version instead of NormalizedVersion.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:21Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
No results, trying again with NormalizedVersion as Version instead of Version.
Starting request to 'http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0')'
Response from http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages?$filter=(tolower(Id) eq 'owin') and (Version eq '1.0.0'):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title type="text">Packages</title><id>http://dev-nuget/nuget/Default/Packages()/</id><updated>2017-08-09T06:20:26Z</updated><link rel="self" title="Packages" href="Packages" /></feed>
Performance:
 - Disk IO: 426 milliseconds
 - Average Request Time: 4 seconds
 - Number of Requests: 18
 - Runtime: 1 minute, 23 seconds