Question

I have a TeamCity Build Configuration that includes the following to publish artifacts:

Source\Builder\bin\Release\*.dll=>release

This works fine, however I am wanting to exclude one dll (there are quite a few) and have read that you can use + & – operators to do this. Something along the lines of:

+: Source\Builder\bin\Release\*.dll=>release
-: Source\Builder\bin\Release\Builder.*

As soon as I add these in, no artifacts are published and I get the following error in the build log (looks like it is counting the + as part of the path):

[Publishing artifacts] Collecting files to publish [+:Source\Builder\bin\Release\*.dll=>release]
[Publishing artifacts] Artifacts path +:Source/Builder/bin/Release/*.dll not found

I am using version 7.1.1, anyone any ideas (I am not sure whether these operators are even valid). I have seen a solution with MSBuild but am surprised this functionality is not available.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I don’t believe you can.

However, if you are using the artifacts in another build configuration as an artifact dependency, you can exclude a particular file there.

When you set up the dependencies, you can specify a negative operator like this:

+:release/**=>Dependencies/SomeProject
-:release/SomeBinary.dll

It is a horrible hack, but one way you could get it to work would be to set up a new build configuration which gets the dependencies as an artifact dependency, excluding the one binary, and then publishes its own artifacts.

As in, create a new build configuration and publish:

Dependencies/SomeProject=>release

Then reference the artifacts from this build configuration instead of the other one.