I'm trying to upgrade a .net core 2.1 project to the latest version of Nuget packages such as Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions 2.1.1.
However this is blocked by the package reference Microsoft.NETCore.App, when I try to upgrade the "meta" package Microsoft.NETCore.App I see "Blocked by project" similar to this question. That was resolved by switching to the newer version of the SDK, however that isn't an option here... because there isn't a newer version of the SDK (yet?).
I've also seen this answer to upgrade specific packages by editing the .csproj file manually with an Update package reference but I doubt that's the intended method of doing this.
How should I go about this? For now I've just manually included the package references I actually use and dropped the meta package but I can't imagine that's the intended way to go about this.