TeamCity Zipped Artifact Dependency

Question

When on the artifacts page in TeamCity, there is an option to download all the artifacts as a zip file.

I was wondering if you can set up dependent build configurations to actually grab the zipped version of the artifacts?

I realize I could zip all the artifacts in the project configuration that initially creates them, but I'd rather not do that.

Alternatively, I could use something like Nant to zip them once they are brought over, but I would imagine that the transfer of these artifacts could probably go a bit faster if the files being sent were zipped in the first place.

Is anyone aware of a way to transfer the zipped artifacts from each of the other projects or if this is supported by TeamCity?

Answer 1

Yep. This is pretty straightforward, at least with the current version of TeamCity (6.5.3). In your "main" project, create the zipped artifact:

MyProjectBuildFolder\** => mybuild-%system.build.number%.zip

After your build, you will see all of your files in the zip artifact. Then create a new build configuration. You will want to edit the dependencies of this build and add a new "artifact dependency". Edit its properties like so:

1. Depend on: The build configuration from your main project from above.
2. Get artifacts from: Last successful build
3. Artifacts paths: If you want to just copy the zip file, this will be *.zip. If you want TeamCity to unpack the zip file for you, use *.zip!**.
4. Destination path: %some.parameter.representing.your.path%

Now when the runner for the dependent build is kicked off, it will grab the latest zip archive from your main project and unpack it into your dependent build's destination folder.