[MANTTASKS-219] artifact:dependencies and ant's restrict name resource filtering does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.10
• Component/s: dependencies task
• Environment: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86_64); Ant 1.7.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wim Symons
• Created: 23/May/11 03:19
• Updated: 08/Jun/11 06:10
• Resolved: 08/Jun/11 06:10

Description

We have an Ant build file which calls maven-ant-tasks's dependencies to copy a bunch of dependencies.
Since we need to exclude some of those jars, we used Ant's resource selectors to restrict the fileset produced by maven-ant-tasks.

A small snippet from our build.xml:

<artifact:pom file="common-core/pom.xml" id="pom.core" />
<target name="deploy-core-jar" depends="package-core-jar">
	<artifact:dependencies scopes="compile,runtime" pomrefid="pom.core" filesetid="dependencies.core" />
	<copy todir="${clientlib.dir}" flatten="true">
		<restrict>
			<fileset refid="dependencies.core" />
			<rsel:not>
				<rsel:or>
					<!-- remove maven-ant-tasks and yuicompressor and their dependencies -->
					<rsel:name name="**/yui*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/plexus*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/maven*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/wagon*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/ant*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/classworlds*.jar" />
					<rsel:name name="**/backport*.jar" />
				</rsel:or>
			</rsel:not>
		</restrict>
	</copy>
</target>

But when we ran the target, no files at all were copied. After a long time searching, we stumbled on the fact that it worked when we left out the line

<rsel:name name="**/maven*.jar" />

Our local Maven repository was located in /home/user/maven-repository. As it seems the pattern given doesn't respect the standard Ant patterns and also matches the directories in between (as maven* matches maven-repository).

As a workaround, we renamed the directory containing the Maven repository to something that doesn't match any of the used patterns.