PowerShell Core on Windows jobs fail with exceptions, but builds pass

[tlindsay42]

PowerShell Core on Windows jobs fail with exceptions, but builds pass

Examples

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  • Visual Studio 2015 image w/ PowerShell Core
  • Visual Studio 2017 image w/ PowerShell Core

[OwenMcDonnell]

Could it be that $ErrorActionPreference is temporarily being set to 'Continue' here?

[tlindsay42]

Good call 🤦‍♂️. This was a bad example because I had to do that as a workaround since mkdocs sends all output to stderr. Here is a better example:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/tlindsay42/armorpowershell/build/1.0.291/job/lhrti66cglq7fjmu

[FeodorFitsner]

Here I'm trying to reproduce the issue by calling non-existent cmdlet inside the script (appveyor.yml): https://ci.appveyor.com/project/appveyor-tests/ps-core-should-fail - it fails as expected.

My guess there is something deeper in your script suppressing the error/exit.

[OwenMcDonnell]

I'm curious if removing the -force flag from Invoke-PSDeploy call here could make the error propagate properly?

Otherwise, I'm thinking maybe putting the cmdlet in a try-catch block could correct this.