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Dan Tran commented on MDEP-68: ------------------------------ this is because excludes/includes configurations are are totally ignored by plexus-archiver's TarUnArchiver. perhaps we can use mojo's truezip component from truezip-maven-plugin, instead of plexus archiver, which has a very flexible configuration and therefor could solve a bunch of issues related to unpack > Make dependency:unpack of tar files support symlinks > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MDEP-68 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-68 > Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: unpack, unpack-dependencies > Reporter: Steinar Bang > Assignee: Brian Fox > > Could dependency:unpack of tar file be made to support symlinks? The use > case is deploying unix/linux shared libraries, with symlinks between > different versions of the libraries. > The current behaviour is that the symlinks becomes 0 byte sized files. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira