Update a production Sqlite database after publish - sqlite

Question

We are trying to update the schema of an Sqlite database during continuous integration. Here is a simplified version of our scenario.
The deployment script publishes the project.
cd App
App> dotnet publish <args>
That creates the following directory structure.
artifacts/
App.dll
Database.sqlite
The-rest-of-the-publish-output
web.config
App/
Migrations/
Program.cs
project.json
Startup.cs
The deployment script then runts the migrations.
App> dotnet ef
--assembly ..\artifacts\App.dll
--startup-assembly ..\artifacts\App.dll
database update
The issue is that we receive the following message:
Unexpected value '..\artifacts\App.dll' for option 'assembly'
We have also tried other ways to run dotnet ef database update on the compiled project but have not been able to determine how to update the database in the artifacts directory.

Answer 1

In our current scenario, we do it like this on Startup.cs:
if (migrateDb)
{
try
{
using (var serviceScope = app.ApplicationServices.GetService<IServiceScopeFactory>()
.CreateScope())
{
serviceScope.ServiceProvider.GetService<ApplicationDbContext>()
.Database.Migrate();
}
}
catch { }
}
while on development migrateDb resolves to false so we can add/remove and apply migrations as desired. On production that will resolve to true for convenience.
There may be well more valid/appropiate options, usually depends on the context and/or project needs. This is just one way of many.