Support `destination` param on `Install task`

[spowser]

Scenario:

• Ubuntu VM with 4 attached disks.
  • Each disk has an agent installed on it at /mnt/disk/somedirectory
  • Each agent runs under its own account
  • Each account is added to a group
  • The group has permissions (chmod 2770) to the /opt/hostedtoolcache which is where Flutter gets installed normally

Issue:

• The first agent to the party succeeds and builds fine
• The second and third agents that try to install Flutter at almost the same time (race condition) but are just behind the first and throw errors trying to rm files trying to clean up the extraction destination
• The last agent is a bit slower and sees Flutter is installed but when it attempts to use the SDK gets the following error

Flutter failed to open a file at "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Flutter/3.13.9/linux/flutter/bin/cache/lockfile".
Please ensure that the SDK and/or project is installed in a location that has read/write permissions for the current user.
Try running:
  sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/hostedtoolcache/Flutter/3.13.9/linux/flutter/bin/cache/lockfile

Assumptions:

Since the error is stating the current user doesn't have permissions and the permissions for the lockfile located at /opt/hostedtoolcache/Flutter/3.13.9/linux/flutter/bin/cache, and are NOT 770, the SDK is designed to only allow 1 user to use it at a time

Multiple users on a machine will need their own copies of the SDK to do work in parallel

Request:

Allow the Flutter SDK be installed to a location defined by a parameter

[spowser]

I see the Flutter Env task allows a custom path to be defined. Does this mean that it is expected that the Install task was not used and this is a way to tie in a custom Flutter install to the rest of the task ecosystem?

[spowser]

I ended up implementing a custom version of the Flutter Install task and using the Flutter Env task to point to the install location. Things seem to be working fine now.

Still would be nice if the Install task supported a destination parameter

[hey24sheep]

I see the Flutter Env task allows a custom path to be defined. Does this mean that it is expected that the Install task was not used and this is a way to tie in a custom Flutter install to the rest of the task ecosystem?

Hi, that is correct. You can install your - own SDK and connect other tasks

[hey24sheep]

Glad to see you got it working. I'll see what I can do. A PR will be great too 😁. Thanks 👍🏻