Post Clean Up ends up with error

[ghost]

Trying to clean up the vnext agent working directory with the "Delete Files" task.

Source Folder: $(Agent.BuildDirectory)
Contents: *

when executing the build, it finishes as partialy succeeded with the following error message:

Error: Failed rmRF: rm: could not remove directory (code EBUSY): D:\Agent1\_work\13\s
Couldn't delete one or more files

looking into the agent directory, the "S" folder is still there, but empty.
I then tryed using inline poweshell with a 10 second wait pause, but the error still comes up.
any ideas how to post clean up the source folder?

[ericsciple]

@hqer2k9 i'm just guessing, but it could be the s folder itself if it's the working directory for the process doing the cleanup. One thing you could try is changing the pattern to $(Agent.BuildDirectory)/**/* and that pattern may avoid the root folder itself.

[bryanmacfarlane]

This can be achieved by setting the Build.Clean variable. See Q & A section. Let the agent do this for you.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/define/repository

[Mardoxx]

@bryanmacfarlane this only does it when initializing the job, not post job.

[Mardoxx]

I set the Build.Clean to all and it does nothing post job. It just clears the directories before pulling sources, not after everything has built successfully - which I would expect it to. Also see microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent#708