[MASSEMBLY-478] allow overwriting newer files with older files contained within fileset

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.2

Environment

mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 13:16:01-0600)
Java version: 1.6.0_17
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.17/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.29-bpo.2-amd64" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"

• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: deckrider
• Created: 11/Mar/10 22:45
• Updated: 11/Nov/14 10:24
• Resolved: 11/Nov/14 10:24

Description

I have a situation where I want to unwind a zip file, and then overlay a few files in it with my own.

I've been using the maven dependency plugin to unwind this zip file and then maven assembly plugin to overwrite a few of the extracted files with my own (generally text based configuration that I keep under source code control).

This seems to work until my files have an earlier modification time than the files that I want to overwrite, in which case my own files do NOT overwite the others (I want my files to ALWAYS replace those in the zip file).

Thank in advance. Here are the configuration details

From my pom.xml:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
          <attach>false</attach>
          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
          <finalName>solaris</finalName>
          <ignoreDirFormatExtensions>true</ignoreDirFormatExtensions>
          <descriptors>
            <descriptor>src/main/assembly/bin.xml</descriptor>
          </descriptors>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>overwrite</id>
            <phase>process-sources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>directory-single</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

From my src/main/assembly/bin.xml:

<assembly>
  <formats>
    <format>dir</format>
  </formats>
  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
  <fileSets>
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${basedir}/src/main/bin</directory>
      <outputDirectory>${prefix}/jboss/bin</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${basedir}/src/main/conf</directory>
      <outputDirectory>${prefix}/jboss/server/wsa/conf</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${basedir}/src/main/deploy</directory>
      <outputDirectory>${prefix}/jboss/server/wsa/deploy</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>
  </fileSets>
</assembly>

Issue Links

• depends upon: MASSEMBLY-725 Fix phase ordering