NuGet: pack command is NOT including nuget dependencies

Question

i have the following setting:

• nuget.exe Version: 1.6.21205.9031
• Project A.csproj packaged into A.1.0.0.0.nupkg, and published to a LOCAL package repository hosted on my local IIS (My VS Nuget Extension i able to add the A-package to a new project)
• Project B.csproj has a dependency to the A-package that i added with the VS Nuget Extension

Now, when i run

nuget spec 

the B.nuspec is created.

Then i run

nuget pack B.csproj -verbose 

but in the created B-package, their is NO dependency to the A-package. The nuget pack command tells me that it has found the packages.config file (which contains the dependency to the A-package), but then it says "Dependencies: None".

What am i missing? Could the problem be that the A-package can only be found in my local package repository? How can i make nuget.exe aware of this local repository?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

nuget pack needs to be able to find the packages folder in order to resolve dependencies (see http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/3097), either in the same folder as the .csproj (as long as there's a .sln file one level above it) or in a folder specified in NuGet.Config.

Answer 2

I think I may have figured this out...

Our library solution had Nuget Package Restore turned on. I turned off NuGet Package Restore, and after that the project dependences were included when I created the NuGet packages.

I'm not really sure why the dependencies were not included in the package when Package Restore was turned on, but oh well :).