diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/SourceBuildArcadeTarball.targets b/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/SourceBuildArcadeTarball.targets
index dfa256387..f52da80a1 100644
--- a/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/SourceBuildArcadeTarball.targets
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/SourceBuildArcadeTarball.targets
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
   <UsingTask TaskName="Microsoft.DotNet.SourceBuild.Tasks.Tarball_WriteSourceRepoProperties" AssemblyFile="$(SourceBuildTasksAssembly)" />
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TarballDir>$(RepoRoot)artifacts/tarball/</TarballDir>
+    <ArtifactsDir>$(RepoRoot)artifacts/</ArtifactsDir>
+    <TarballDir>$(ArtifactsDir)tarball/</TarballDir>
     <TarballRootDir>$([MSBuild]::EnsureTrailingSlash('$(TarballDir)'))</TarballRootDir>
     <TarballSourceDir>$(TarballRootDir)src/</TarballSourceDir>
     <TarballGitInfoDir>$(TarballRootDir)git-info/</TarballGitInfoDir>
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@
       SetupSelfGithubInfo;
       CloneRepoAndDependentsRecursive;
       CleanClonedSource;
+      RestoreTextOnlyPackages;
+      CopyTextOnlyPackages;
       CopyTarballContent;
       ">
 
@@ -227,6 +230,19 @@
     <Delete Files="@(TarballSrcBinaryToRemove)" />
   </Target>
 
+  <Target Name="RestoreTextOnlyPackages">
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <TextOnlyPackageRestoreDir>$(ArtifactsDir)text-only-packages/</TextOnlyPackageRestoreDir>
+      <TextOnlyPackageTarballDir>$(TarballRootDir)packages/text-only/</TextOnlyPackageTarballDir>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+
+    <Message Text="Restoring text only packages..." Importance="High" />
+
+    <MSBuild Projects="../Arcade/tools/TextOnlyPackages.csproj"
+             Properties="TargetPackagesPath=$(TextOnlyPackageRestoreDir)"
+             Targets="Restore" />
+  </Target>
+
   <Target Name="CopyTarballContent">
     <ItemGroup>
       <TarballContent Include="$(RepoRoot)src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/**/*" />
@@ -269,4 +285,42 @@
     <MakeDir Directories="$(TarballRootDir)packages/prebuilt" />
   </Target>
 
+  <!--
+    Read directories in which text-only packages have been downloaded and copy content to tarball.
+  -->
+  <Target Name="CopyTextOnlyPackages" DependsOnTargets="RestoreTextOnlyPackages" >
+
+    <ReadLinesFromFile File="$(TextOnlyPackageRestoreDir)/TextOnlyPackageDirectories.txt" Condition="Exists('$(TextOnlyPackageRestoreDir)/TextOnlyPackageDirectories.txt')">
+      <Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="TextOnlyPackageDirectories" />
+    </ReadLinesFromFile>
+
+    <MSBuild Projects="$(MSBuildProjectFile)"
+      Targets="CopySingleTextOnlyDirectory"
+      Properties="TextOnlyDirectory=%(TextOnlyPackageDirectories.Identity);TextOnlyPackageTarballDir=$(TextOnlyPackageTarballDir)" />
+
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="CopySingleTextOnlyDirectory">
+
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <DirectoryName>$([System.IO.Path]::GetFileName('$(TextOnlyDirectory)'))</DirectoryName>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <TextOnlyPackageContent 
+        Include="$(TextOnlyDirectory)/**/*"
+        Exclude="
+          $(TextOnlyDirectory)/**/.nupkg.metadata;
+          $(TextOnlyDirectory)/**/.signature.p7s;
+          $(TextOnlyDirectory)/**/*.nupkg;
+          $(TextOnlyDirectory)/**/*.nupkg.sha512;
+        " />
+    </ItemGroup>
+
+    <Copy
+      SourceFiles="@(TextOnlyPackageContent)"
+      DestinationFiles="@(TextOnlyPackageContent->'$(TextOnlyPackageTarballDir)$(DirectoryName)/%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
+
+  </Target>
+
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/TextOnlyPackages.csproj b/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/TextOnlyPackages.csproj
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b45c1bef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/Arcade/tools/TextOnlyPackages.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <TargetFrameworks>net6.0</TargetFrameworks>
+    <RestorePackagesPath>$(TargetPackagesPath)</RestorePackagesPath>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
+  <!--
+    The following text-only packages are ones that are consumed by the installer repo, whose
+    versions are dynamic.  These are maintained here so the dynamic version numbers can
+    come from the source (eng/Versions.props).  All other more static text-only packages
+    should be added to source-build-reference-packages.
+  -->
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Common.ItemTemplates"
+                     Version="[$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonItemTemplates21PackageVersion)];
+                              [$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonItemTemplates30PackageVersion)];
+                              [$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonItemTemplates31PackageVersion)];
+                              [$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonItemTemplates50PackageVersion)];
+                              [$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonItemTemplates60PackageVersion)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ItemTemplates"
+                     Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor21Templates)];
+                              [$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor30Templates)];
+                              [$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor31Templates)];
+                              [$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor50Templates)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ItemTemplates.6.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor60Templates)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Common.ProjectTemplates.2.1" Version="[$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonProjectTemplates21PackageVersion)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Common.ProjectTemplates.3.0" Version="[$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonProjectTemplates30PackageVersion)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Common.ProjectTemplates.3.1" Version="[$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonProjectTemplates31PackageVersion)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Common.ProjectTemplates.5.0" Version="[$(MicrosoftDotNetCommonProjectTemplates50PackageVersion)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.2.1" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor21Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.3.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor30Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.3.1" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor31Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.5.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor50Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.6.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor60Templates)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.2.1" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor21Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.3.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor30Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.3.1" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor31Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.5.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor50Templates)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.6.0" Version="[$(AspNetCorePackageVersionFor60Templates)]" />
+
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.NET.Workload.Emscripten.Manifest-6.0.100" Version="[$(EmscriptenWorkloadManifestVersion)]" />
+    <PackageDownload Include="Microsoft.NET.Workload.Mono.ToolChain.Manifest-6.0.100" Version="[$(MonoWorkloadManifestVersion)]" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <!--
+    Write out directories in which text-only packages are downloaded to be consumed by the "CopyTextOnlyPackages"
+    target.
+  -->
+  <Target Name="WriteTextOnlyDirectoryFile" BeforeTargets="Restore">
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <TextOnlyPackagesDirectories Include="$(TargetPackagesPath)$([System.String]::copy('%(PackageDownload.Identity)').ToLower())" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+
+    <PropertyGroup>
+      <TextOnlyPackageDirectoriesContent>@(TextOnlyPackagesDirectories)</TextOnlyPackageDirectoriesContent>
+    </PropertyGroup>
+
+    <WriteLinesToFile
+      Lines="$(TextOnlyPackageDirectoriesContent)"
+      File="$(TargetPackagesPath)/TextOnlyPackageDirectories.txt"
+      Overwrite="true" />
+  </Target>
+</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/tools-local/init-build.proj b/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/tools-local/init-build.proj
index 56b486024..dc4f065e3 100644
--- a/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/tools-local/init-build.proj
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/tools-local/init-build.proj
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
       BuildXPlatTasks;
       ExtractToolPackage;
       GenerateRootFs;
+      BuildTextOnlyPackages;
       ApplyPatches;
       PoisonPrebuiltPackages" />
   </Target>
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@
     <Move SourceFiles="@(UnpackedSourceBuildReferencePackages)" DestinationFiles="$(ReferencePackagesDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)" />
 
     <!-- remove some reference packages that are generated incorrectly and instead use the prebuilt checked-in version instead -->
-    <!-- relevant issues: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/44646, https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/45183, 
+    <!-- relevant issues: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/44646, https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/45183,
          https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/45417.   this should be fixed for the 6.0 release.                           -->
     <ItemGroup>
       <PrebuiltPackagesToUse Include="$(PrebuiltPackagesPath)/*.nupkg" />
@@ -133,6 +134,13 @@
       <TextOnlyPackageNuspecFile Include="$(TextOnlyPackageBaseDir)/**/*.nuspec" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
+    <Message Importance="High" Text="Found text only package nuspec file: %(TextOnlyPackageNuspecFile.Identity)" />
+
+    <ReplaceTextInFile
+      InputFile="%(TextOnlyPackageNuspecFile.Identity)"
+      OldText="&lt;/package&gt;"
+      NewText="&lt;files&gt;&lt;file src=&quot;.\**\*&quot;/&gt;&lt;/files&gt;&lt;/package&gt;" />
+
     <NugetPack
       Nuspecs="%(TextOnlyPackageNuspecFile.Identity)"
       OutputDirectory="$(SourceBuiltPackagesPath)"
@@ -160,7 +168,7 @@
       OldText="%3CReadSourceBuildIntermediateNupkgDependencies"
       NewText="%3CReadSourceBuildIntermediateNupkgDependencies Condition=&quot;'%24%28DotNetBuildOffline%29' != 'true'&quot;" />
 
-    <!-- Allow overriding of Arcade targets for SourceBuild to enable quicker 
+    <!-- Allow overriding of Arcade targets for SourceBuild to enable quicker
          dev turnaround for Preview 6 -->
     <ItemGroup>
       <OverrideArcadeFiles Include="$(ProjectDir)ArcadeOverrides/**/*" />