[ https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-670?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=335026#comment-335026 ]
Kristian Rosenvold edited comment on MASSEMBLY-670 at 11/1/13 2:18 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I just tested this on the official maven distribution; {code} git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git cd maven mvm clean install cd apache-maven/target {code} extract zip file and tar file, observe all file timestamps are correct. Can you test this same sequence on your machine ? If this does not work, it might be something platform/os/file system specific ? was (Author: krosenvold): I just tested this on the official maven distribution; git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git mvm clean install cd apache-maven/target extract zip file and tar file, observe all file timestamps are correct. Can you test this same sequence on your machine ? If this does not work, it might be something platform/os/file system specific ? > assembly plugin tar.gz format does not preserve timestamps of files it adds > to archive > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-670 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-670 > Project: Maven Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Components: component descriptor > Affects Versions: 2.4 > Environment: linux > Reporter: Steve Cohen > > The .tar.gz archives created by the assembly plugin do not preserve the > timestamps of the files it adds to the archive. There is no setting to > override this. > This differs from the functionality of the tar program. That program > preserves timestamps by default, when adding to the archive and there is no > option to change this, although there are options to change the timestamps on > extraction. > The maven plugin should emulate tar here, I would think. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira