NuGet private feed not updating DownloadCount

Question

I have set up a small test Nuget private repository on my machine following this guide.

Everything is working perfectly and I can publish packages, update versions, download them etc. The only problem is that the DownloadCount of my packages is always 0 regardless of how many times I download it.

I downloaded NuGet source but could not find a place where this value is updated. Moreover, nuget does not seem to use any DB technology so probably the feed is just generated on demand from the contents of the Packages folder.

Does anyone have any idea if this is a known issue or if it's a problem in my setup or if I should just add some code to the server to record downloads myself?

Thanks!

Answer 1

NuGet.Server based web sites are simply a front-end exposing an OData feed on top of a file share. There's no real database behind it, no indexing, no auditing, tracing, metrics or statistics, or any of that kind of stuff.

You could build it yourself, or take a look at alternatives such as MyGet, ProGet, Artifactory, etc.