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GitHub Action that installs and uses the GitVersion and GitReleaseManager tools
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[ISSUE]: Arbitrarily high Build Agent Version demand required to run tasks? #1296

Open fourpastmidnight opened 2 days ago

fourpastmidnight commented 2 days ago

Prerequisites

GitVersion package

AzureDevops task

What are you seeing?

I recently had my Azure DevOps Server administrators install this extension into a collection so I can start playing around with it. Unfortunately, however, it seems that this extension places a demand for a (seemingly) high Build Agent version demand.

We often lag behind "the bleeding edge" of agents (OK, even more behind than the bleeding edge), with our highest running version being 2.181.2. Even the latest and greatest versions of Jfrog CLI, Octopus Deploy, AWS, Terraform, and many other extensions run on our agents, which arguably, do A LOT MORE than this extension does. So why such a high build agent version demand that limits where this extension can be run?

This is very unfortunate, as GitVersion is an awesome versioning tool that is now EXTREMELY difficult to use in our build environment. 😢

What is expected?

I expect that this tool should "just work" on almost any version of the Azure DevOps build agent that's out there. What it does is relatively simple: executes some git commands and adds variables to the build environment. This has been supported by the build agents "almost forever", so there's really no need (other than Azure DevOps TypeScript library compatibility) to restrict on what version of Agent this can run, at least, not as "high" of a restriction.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install a build agent with v2.181.2 (or older)
  2. Add GitTools extension to the Azure DevOps Collection/Organization
  3. Create a build pipeline with only the task to install the GitVersion tool
  4. Run the pipeline
  5. Not profit 😢

Output log or link to your CI build (if appropriate).

[error]No agent found in pool BuildAgentPoolTest01 which satisfies the following demand: Agent.Version. All demands: Agent.Version -gtVersion 3.224.0

Pool: BuildAgentPoolTest01 Started: Today at 1:16 PM Duration: 10m 57s

Job preparation parameters ContinueOnError: False TimeoutInMinutes: 60 CancelTimeoutInMinutes: 5 Expand: MaxConcurrency: 0 ########## System Pipeline Decorator(s) ##########

Begin evaluating template 'system-pre-steps.yml' Evaluating: eq('true', variables['system.debugContext']) Expanded: eq('true', Null) Result: False Evaluating: resources['repositories']['self'] Expanded: Null Result: False Finished evaluating template 'system-pre-steps.yml'

Template and static variable resolution complete. Final runtime YAML document: steps: []

MaxConcurrency: 0 1 queue time variable used system.debug : false

fourpastmidnight commented 2 days ago

This may be related to #1231.