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Zuhayr Khan updated MASSEMBLY-343: ---------------------------------- Attachment: MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin_fixed.patch Thanks Ahmed - seems a rogue line-ending caused the issue you noted. I now attached a fixed version of the patch. Hopefully this should solve your problem. Zuhayr > add symbolic links managment > ---------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-343 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-343 > Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Wish > Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2 > Environment: linux, ubuntu > Reporter: Godet Gilles > Attachments: MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin_fixed.patch, > MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin.patch > > > 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 ! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira