Currently we are deploying our Umbraco site with teamcity and octopus deploy, having uSync installed to synchronize datatypes, document types etc. between enviroments.
Now im facing our first problem with our CI setup: How do i automatically install/uninstall any installed umbraco packages? If i install a package through the Umbraco interface, locally, and then deploy to our test environment, then i get an error until i install the package manually. This I have to do every time I deploy.
What is the correct way of managing/synchronizing packages between environments when using CI?
The solution to this issue is to either:
1. Install all packages via Nuget
If you install all packages via. Nuget, then teamcity will take care of everything for you when building the solution.
2. Reference the package .dll
If the package is not available as a Nuget package, then download if via Umbraco, find the .dll and move it to another folder in your solution and reference the .dll from there instead.