From b914e825bdf577aeb01101c523a2fb0c85ca52d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Carlos=20S=C3=A1nchez=20L=C3=B3pez?=
 <1175054+carlossanlop@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:17:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Pass DotNetFinalVersionKind via yaml as a global property

---
 eng/Versions.props                     | 2 --
 eng/pipelines/maintenance-packages.yml | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index e577c2b73..f4bffaa78 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <PreReleaseVersionLabel>rtm</PreReleaseVersionLabel>
     <PreReleaseVersionIteration></PreReleaseVersionIteration>
-    <!-- Enables removing prerelease labels. -->
-    <DotNetFinalVersionKind>release</DotNetFinalVersionKind>
     <!-- Opt-out repo features -->
     <UseVSTestRunner>true</UseVSTestRunner>
     <UsingToolXliff>false</UsingToolXliff>
diff --git a/eng/pipelines/maintenance-packages.yml b/eng/pipelines/maintenance-packages.yml
index 8eb88b327..8a021b5cb 100644
--- a/eng/pipelines/maintenance-packages.yml
+++ b/eng/pipelines/maintenance-packages.yml
@@ -83,10 +83,15 @@ extends:
               fetchDepth: 0
               clean: true
             steps:
+            # Manually run an Azure DevOps job with the variable 'DotNetFinalVersionKind' set to 'release' to
+            # generate a stable version (package names without preview suffix strings).
+            # For nightly builds this value should be empty (default value).
+            # https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/blob/master/Documentation/CorePackages/Versioning.md#package-versioning
             - script: eng\common\cibuild.cmd
                 -configuration Release
                 -prepareMachine
                 /p:Test=false
+                /p:DotNetFinalVersionKind=$(DotNetFinalVersionKind)
                 $(_AdditionalBuildArgs)
                 $(_InternalBuildArgs)
               displayName: $(_BuildJobDisplayName)