Support .NET SDK 5.0.202 and later

[rdipardo]

The current global.json is locked at 5.0.102.

This release is critically flawed on some Linux hosts, where recent versions of nss or ca-certificates can cause package verification to fail during dotnet restore.

After the recommended upgrade to 5.0.202, the build workflow is broken:

$ dotnet tool restore
Could not execute because the application was not found or a compatible .NET SDK is not installed.
Possible reasons for this include:
  * You intended to execute a .NET program:
      The application 'tool' does not exist.
  * You intended to execute a .NET SDK command:
      A compatible installed .NET SDK for global.json version [5.0.102] from [/home/rob/dev/git/Fornax/global.json] was not found.
      Install the [5.0.102] .NET SDK or update [/home/rob/dev/git/Fornax/global.json] with an installed .NET SDK:
        3.1.407 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
        5.0.202 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]

I can resolve this locally by editing global.json to choose the highest installed feature band:

diff --git a/global.json b/global.json
index 12cb7ff..3ca4dc8 100644
--- a/global.json
+++ b/global.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "sdk": {
-    "version": "5.0.102"
+    "version": "5.0.102",
+    "rollForward": "latestFeature"
   }
 }

Environment

.NET SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   5.0.202
 Commit:    db7cc87d51

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     bunsenlabs
 OS Version:  10.5
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         linux-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/5.0.202/

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 5.0.5
  Commit:  2f740adc14

.NET SDKs installed:
  3.1.407 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
  5.0.202 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]

Additional context

• NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates

[oluwandabira]

Is this being looked at? It would be nice to have as the current release requires 3.1 and crashes when sub directories are involved.

[rdipardo]

Just to clarify, it only seems like "the current release requires 3.1" because the installed version of fake-cli is incompatible with newer SDKs:

$ dotnet tool restore
Tool 'fake-cli' (version '5.20.3') was restored. Available commands: fake
Tool 'paket' (version '5.257.0') was restored. Available commands: paket

Restore was successful.

$  dotnet fake build
Performance:
 - Cli parsing: 814 milliseconds
 - Packages: 1 second
 - Script analyzing: 507 milliseconds
 - Runtime: 4 seconds
There was a problem while setting up the environment:
-> Extracting platforms from path 'net5.0' failed, a newer Paket version might support it, otherwise please open an issue for a missing platform handler.
Hint: If you just upgraded the fake-runner you can try to remove the .fake directory and try again.

The latest version of fake-cli is the first one to fully support net5.0 (meaning, SDKs beyond 5.0.102):

diff --git a/.config/dotnet-tools.json b/.config/dotnet-tools.json
index 153c26c..b9fdb39 100644  
--- a/.config/dotnet-tools.json
+++ b/.config/dotnet-tools.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "isRoot": true,
   "tools": {
     "fake-cli": {
-      "version": "5.20.3",    
+      "version": "5.20.4",
       "commands": [
         "fake"
       ]

$ dotnet tool restore
Tool 'fake-cli' (version '5.20.4') was restored. Available commands: fake
Tool 'paket' (version '5.257.0') was restored. Available commands: paket

Restore was successful.

$ dotnet fake build
Building project with version: LocalBuild
[ . . . ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Build Time Report
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Target         Duration
------         --------
Clean          00:00:00.0057032
AssemblyInfo   00:00:00.1127332
Restore        00:00:22.4571167
Build          00:01:03.5961564
Publish        00:00:12.8017990
Test           00:00:50.2630232
Default        00:00:00.0003009
Pack           00:01:29.3428302
Total:         00:03:59.1215607
Status:        Ok
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Performance:
 - Cli parsing: 826 milliseconds
 - Packages: 36 seconds
   - Disk IO: 15 seconds
   - Average Download Time: 106 milliseconds
   - Number of downloads: 166
   - Average Request Time: 92 milliseconds
   - Number of Requests: 167
   - Creating Runtime Graph: 511 milliseconds
   - Retrieve Assembly List: 16 seconds
 - Script compiling: 20 seconds
 - Script analyzing: 107 milliseconds
 - Script running: 4 minutes
 - Script cleanup: 142 milliseconds
 - Runtime: 5 minutes, 21 seconds

[rdipardo]

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