[MASSEMBLY-343] add symbolic links managment (java7+ only supported)

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Environment: linux, ubuntu
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Godet Gilles
• Created: 25/Jul/08 14:49
• Updated: 19/Oct/15 09:20
• Resolved: 03/Oct/14 04:48

Description

i need to buid archives ( tar for example ) with symbolic links

the plugin build an archive with a file containing the destination of the link, not the link itself

=> the plugin need an option to know if deferencement of links is needed
this is just like -h option of tar
-h, --dereference
don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to

actually, if you do an archive of /lib, for example, many file will be in double with différent names. extract of archive will not be the exactly the same as the source of the archive. => this is a test !

Issue Links

• depends upon: MASSEMBLY-714 Update version of plexus-archiver to 2.7.1
• is related to: MASSEMBLY-785 Add option to copy symlink target instead of symlink