Publishing artifacts fails with soft links.

[buckett]

We have git repository that we are using with VSO and in our build we attempt to publish all the files that make up the checkout. Contained within this checkout is a soft link. If we attempt to publish the softlink it fails:

Cleaning staging folder: /srv/release_agent/_work/3/a/server
found 609 files
shell.js: internal error
Error: EEXIST: file already exists, symlink '../../../schema/schema.js' -> '/srv/release_agent/_work/3/a/server/client/app/schema/schema.js'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.symlinkSync (fs.js:902:18)
    at cpdirSyncRecursive (/srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:76:10)
    at cpdirSyncRecursive (/srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:73:7)
    at /srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:180:9
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object._cp (/srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:157:11)
    at Object.cp (/srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/shelljs/src/common.js:186:23)
    at Object.cp (/srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/node_modules/vsts-task-lib/task.js:606:15)
    at /srv/release_agent/_work/tasks/CopyPublishBuildArtifacts/1.0.18/copypublishbuildartifacts.js:154:20
Return code: 1

We're running a copy of the agent locally on a Ubuntu Linux server.

[buckett]

I think this might be related to https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs/issues/193

[nigurr]

@buckett Yes, it's the issue with shelljs. Closing this for now. Once shelljs is released with the fix, should be working here

[buckett]

shelljs has a fix: https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs/pull/232 but I think you'll need to change how you're doing the copy.

[bryanmacfarlane]

Deprecated. Replacement is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent