阻止Nuget下载依赖项的最新版本

Question

I used Nuget for downloading a specific version of CouchbaseClient which is a .Net client for a NoSql product.

This dll has a dependency in Newton.Json , so this is what happened when using Nuget:

Install-Package CouchbaseNetClient -Version 1.3.6
Attempting to resolve dependency 'Newtonsoft.Json'.
Installing 'Newtonsoft.Json 6.0.5'.
Successfully installed 'Newtonsoft.Json 6.0.5'.
Installing 'CouchbaseNetClient 1.3.6'.
Successfully installed 'CouchbaseNetClient 1.3.6'.
Adding 'Newtonsoft.Json 6.0.5' to DataAccess.
Successfully added 'Newtonsoft.Json 6.0.5' to DataAccess.
Adding 'CouchbaseNetClient 1.3.6' to DataAccess.
Successfully added 'CouchbaseNetClient 1.3.6' to DataAccess.

The problem is, that when i ran the unit tests an exception was thrown that it is looking for Newton.Json version 4.5.0.

So , i needed to remove manually the Newton.Json 6.0.5 that Nuget downloaded for me and added with Nuget Newton.Json 4.5.0.

Is there a simpler way to do it? I do not want to do this manual process each time i will download a package with dependencies which are not the most updated version.

Answer 1

Your options are:

1. Add a binding redirect for Newtonsoft.Json in your app.config so 4.5 is redirected to 6.0.5.
2. Add a constraint to your packages.config to restrict the Newtonsoft.Json package version.
3. Install a more recent NuGet version (2.5 or above).
4. Use the -DependencyVersion parameter to change the default behaviour of Install-Package.
5. Create a project template with your required NuGet packages and re-use that.

If Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.11 was already installed then CouchbaseNetClient would not install a later version unless you do not have Newtonsoft.Json installed already or you are using an old version of NuGet (older than NuGet 2.5).