Steven Cohen created MASSEMBLY-667:
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Summary: Allow a <directoryMode> to be applied to the base
directory of a tar.gz archive
Key: MASSEMBLY-667
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-667
Project: Maven Assembly Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: component descriptor
Affects Versions: 2.4
Environment: RHEL 5
Reporter: Steven Cohen
Priority: Minor
I'm working in a very specialized legacy environment in which it would be nice
to have an archive (.tar.gz) that had all the permissions as I want from the
start. Granted it's not all that hard to do after unpackaging with chmod
running under find, but it would be nice if the base-directory itself had a
<directory-mode> as do the <filesets> that get packaged under it. Bottom-line:
the plugin doesn't give me the same level of control as the OS does. Archiver
support for <fileMode> and <directoryMode> is to that extent incomplete.
The archiver does not create an entry in the archive for the base-directory.
This is because no matter where you put the <directoryMode> it applies to
directories WITHIN that <fileset>, not to the root of the fileset itself. If a
directory entry is not created in the archive, then the -p switch of tar will
have nothing to "preserve" and just use the default permission for the base
directory.
Really, I think to make this work, one would have to be somehow be able to put
a <directoryMode> on <base-directory> as well as actually create an entry in
the archive for the base directory.
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