dotnet publish --no-build with separate build

[pcappaert]

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Describe the bug

I am working on a container build for an aspnetcore project in an azure devops pipeline. For better debugging I am trying to use a separate 'dotnet build' and 'dotnet publish' commands. That section of the container file looks like this.

RUN dotnet build --configuration Debug --no-restore --no-incremental --use-current-runtime \
    --verbosity=minimal

RUN dotnet publish --configuration Debug --no-build \
    --verbosity=minimal \
    {project csproj file location}

This is the error from the docker build task in ADO

/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.405/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor/targets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.StaticWebAssets.targets(680,7): error : Manifest file at 'obj/Debug/net6.0/staticwebassets.build.json' not found.

This error is nearly identical to that found in another issue, #41149, but that issue was closed after the author found it was fixed but changing 'release' to 'Release', but that does not seem to be relevant here. I confirmed the same result with either Debug or Release. Combining the two commands as such works.

RUN dotnet publish --configuration Debug \
    --verbosity=minimal \
    {project csproj file location}

.NET Version

6.0.405

[mkArtakMSFT]

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Does this repro for a .NET 7 project?
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[pcappaert]

Here is a repro project, https://github.com/pcappaert/WebApplication1. I am running on an m1 mac using Podman instead of docker. I did not encounter this issue when using the Debug configuration for the build and publish but I got the exact same error as I was seeing in ADO when I changed the configuration to Release so that is what I have in the repository. Here is the output from the container build for the publish step.

[1/2] STEP 12/12: RUN dotnet publish --configuration ${DOTNET_CONFIG} --no-build     --verbosity=normal     WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj
MSBuild version 17.3.2+561848881 for .NET
Build started 01/09/2023 16:26:18.
     1>Project "/source/WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj" on node 1 (Publish target(s)).
     1>PrepareForBuild:
         Creating directory "/source/WebApplication1/obj/Release/net6.0/refint/".
         Creating directory "obj/Release/net6.0/ref".
       PrepareForPublish:
         Creating directory "bin/Release/net6.0/publish/".
       ResolveStaticWebAssetsConfiguration:
         Creating directory "obj/Release/net6.0/staticwebassets/".
     1>/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.405/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor/targets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.StaticWebAssets.targets(680,7): error : Manifest file at 'obj/Release/net6.0/staticwebassets.build.json' not found. [/source/WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj]
     1>Done Building Project "/source/WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj" (Publish target(s)) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

       "/source/WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj" (Publish target) (1) ->
       (_CleanupReferencedProjectItemGroups target) -> 
         /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.405/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor/targets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.StaticWebAssets.targets(680,7): error : Manifest file at 'obj/Release/net6.0/staticwebassets.build.json' not found. [/source/WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj]

    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:05.29
Error: building at STEP "RUN dotnet publish --configuration ${DOTNET_CONFIG} --no-build     --verbosity=normal     WebApplication1/WebApplication1.csproj": while running runtime: exit status 1