Cannot install package - custom nodes

[tpluscode]

I'm using FluentAssertions. When I first converted from NuGet it got correctly added to the csproj.

However later reinstalls (unnecessary as in #366, but that's beside the point) fail to install that package. When I do paket add nuget FluentAssertions or update it says in yellow custom nodes for FluentAssertions => skipping.

What are these custom nodes and why can't the be ignored?

Adding --force didn't help. The package gets unpacked and is added to .dependencies but references aren't added.

[forki]

can you please show us the csproj file?

[utopius]

I'm having a similar problem where my project needs Castle.Windsor, but the only reference added to the project file is a reference to Castle.Core. Castle.Windsor is always skipped with the message
- custom nodes for Castle.Windsor ==> skipping".

At least that's how I interpret the output. Would be nice if the warning contained the project's filename to make it easier to find out what's wrong.

I created a Gist containing the project file and the paket.references of the project:
https://gist.github.com/utopius/0eff880c4e47ac9043f9

I'm currently in the middle of cleaning up NuGet mess, I hope I got everything right. Please let me know if you need further info.

[isaacabraham]

This happens (AFAIK) if you have a custom reference to Castle.Windsor already in the project (or if Paket thinks that you do). You can remove this with a restore --hard I believe.

[utopius]

@isaacabraham thanks,
paket.exe restore --hard did not help, but
paket.exe install --hard did the trick and installed the Castle.Windsor package. The strange thing was: I had no custom reference to it.

@tpluscode Does this fix your problem, too?

[tpluscode]

Hm, I redid the conversion from scratch and now I don't have that problem.

So what exactly are the custom nodes? I assumed they were something in the package and not the project.

[tpluscode]

Oh, sorry I just got the same problem in the repro solution for issue #372. It can't have anything to do with preexisting references, because that's a fresh csproj created by Visual Studio.

Please have a look at https://github.com/tpluscode/paket-dependencies/blob/master/PaketLocalSources/PaketLocalSources.csproj

I do .paket/paket.exe add nuget FluentAssertions --interactive and answer Yes for the project

[tpluscode]

And yes, install --hard does the trick

[forki]

could you please retry with 0.15.1. thanks

[tpluscode]

Still doesn't work

[forki]

after removing the wrong path I can reproduce now. Let's see

[forki]

ok I found it.
The issue is the following:
FluentAssertions\lib\sl5 contains Microsoft.CSharp.dll
You project contains a framework reference to Microsoft.CSharp.dll

Now paket is confused and ignores it since we play it conservative.

install --hard gives paket the chance to take over everything.

So I have to classify as "won't fix" and the workaround for this (arguably broken package) is use --hard