Exclude files while packaging an extension

Question

I am trying to create an Azure DevOps extension. As part of this, when I tried to use a npm package azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest-v2, it is failing when package extension is done using tfx create extension command showing the following error:

It is because of a license file included in the module in node_modules. When I deleted that file, it created the .vsix file successfully. Is there any alternative for this module? Or Is there a way to exclude a file while using the tfx create extension command?

Answer 1

As the error message indicates, this seems to be happening because of the whitespace in the name of the file OpenSSL License.txt. The easiest way to work around this could be to rename the file before running tfx extension create command.

If that doesn't help, please open an issue with the azure-pipelines-tasks repo. Here is a similar issue opened in the past.