tfs - donet pack in VS Team Services

Question

I have a problem with my build configuration in VS Team Services. I try to mark my nuget packages with prerelease suffix.

I have a Utility CommandLine step defined.

Tool: dotnet
Argument: pack $(build.sourcesdirectory)/..../project.json --no-build --configuration Release --output nupkgs --version-suffix "prerelease-$(rev:.rr)"

I get the message: "'1.0.0-prerelease-$(rev:.rr)' is not a valid version string."

If I do the same with a static:

Tool: dotnet
Argument: pack $(build.sourcesdirectory)/..../project.json --no-build --configuration Release --output nupkgs --version-suffix "prerelease-123"

That works fine.

So, it seams that the special placeholder $(rev:.rr) is not replaced, but I don't know why.

Kind regards

Answer 1

I found out that there are different variables for the build and release tabs. I tried to use this token on a build definition, what didn't work.

I was able to achive what I want to do with a build token.

Kind regards