Styjun

I'm trying to publish a PowerShell module to Azure Artifacts which has a dependency on another module that is hosted in the same Artifacts feed. The idea is that when I install the module locally from the feed, the correct version of the dependency is installed automatically. The problem is that when I run:

Publish-Module -NuGetApiKey "token" -Path path -Repository "ArtifactsFeedName" -Verbose -ErrorAction Stop

I get the following error:

 Publish-PSArtifactUtility : PowerShellGet cannot resolve the module dependency 'dependency' of the module 
 'moduleWhichHasDependency' on the repository 'ArtifactsFeed'. Verify that the dependent module 'dependency' 
 is available in the repository 'ArtifactsFeed'. If this dependent module 'dependency' is managed externally, 
 add it to the ExternalModuleDependencies entry in the PSData section of the module manifest.
 At C:Program FilesWindowsPowerShellModulesPowerShellGet1.0.0.1PSModule.psm1:1190 char:17
 + Publish-PSArtifactUtility -PSModuleInfo $moduleInfo `
 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Publish-PSArtifactUtility], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnableToResolveModuleDependency,Publish-PSArtifactUtility

In the manifest, the dependency is added like this:

 RequiredModules = @( @ModuleName = 'dependency'; ModuleVersion = '1.0.4'; )

Then I tried adding:

ExternalModuleDependencies = @( @ModuleName = 'dependency'; ModuleVersion = '1.0.4'; )

The module is published but when I install it locally, it doesn't install the dependency.

This issue seems to have been fixed in the latest version of PowershellGet (2.2 in the PSGallery, version installed on my computer was 1.0.1).
You could also install the latest version of PackageManagement (1.4.3 vs 1.0.1)

See :

Added credential parameter to subsequent calls of Publish-Module/Script. #93
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGet/pull/93

Implement Publish-Module credential parameter propagation to sub-functions #104
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGet/pull/104

To do this :

Install-Module PowershellGet -Force #-Scope Current #if you don't want to login as Administrator

However, I have a question for you : how do you manage not to give your Credentials when you call Publish-Module with an Azure Artifact feed ? I know they should be stored in the file nuget.config but I have to give them each time.

Publish-Module -NuGetApiKey "whatever" -Credentials "PSCredentials object" -Path path -Repository "ArtifactsFeedName" -Verbose -ErrorAction Stop