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tfx-cli@0.6.0 regression: `extension create` fails without internet access

See original GitHub issue

We use an on-premise TFS 2018 Update 2 instance (version 16.131.27701.1), hosted on a network with no Internet access, and build TFS extensions locally. We package our custom TFS extensions using:

node_modules\.bin\tfx.cmd extension create --root tasks

This worked well, and produced a VSIX, with every version before tfx-cli 0.6.0. When upgrading to v0.6.0 today, however, the same command now fails:

[37m[90mTFS Cross Platform Command Line Interface v0.6.0[37m[39m
[37m[90mCopyright Microsoft Corporation[37m[39m
##[error][41merror: Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN app.vssps.visualstudio.com app.vssps.visualstudio.com:443[49m
##[error]Cmd.exe exited with code '-1'.

It does not look expected that running tfx-cli extension create would attempt to connect to visualstudio.com. This seems related to changes committed in https://github.com/Microsoft/tfs-cli/commit/5bfdc01bcd8ff52e5ecbd58e3cdc623d7d0ea343.

Will an Internet connection be required for packaging extensions? We would be blocked from upgrading past v0.5.14 if that is the case.