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Steve Cohen edited comment on MASSEMBLY-670 at 11/4/13 11:16 AM:
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Thank you.
On the machine I'd like to test it on, I don't have git and cannot install it.
I have tested it on another machine. However, I don't think that your test is
a valid duplicate of my use case.
My use case involves a custom assembly descriptor with filesets. It includes a
jar built with maven and also some text format configuration files and it is
these where I need timestamps preserved. My situation doesn't use git, it uses
svn with the use-commit-times config option to preserve the timestamps on
checkout. I want these timestamps preserved in the .tar.gz archive. I assume
that git would have a similar configuration option, but I've not used git
before now. A valid test case using git would enable this option. In your
test case I see no timestamps earlier than the time I began the build, but with
such an option enabled, presumably, we would have a valid test of my scenario.
Also I've looked into the plugin source code and I find nothing there that
would cause the source file timestamps to be applied to the destination archive
entries, although it's certainly possible that I've missed where this happens.
I may not respond as promptly as you'd like to your input on this issue because
I cannot get the jira to respect my setting of wanting notification emails on
my bugs, and several requests for help on this have gone unanswered.
was (Author: sco...@javactivity.org):
Thank you.
On the machine I'd like to test it on, I don't have git and cannot install it.
I have tested it on another machine. However, I don't think that your test is
a valid duplicate of my use case.
My use case involves a custom assembly descriptor with filesets. It includes a
jar built with maven and also some text format configuration files and it is
these where I need timestamps preserved. My situation doesn't use git, it uses
svn with the use-commit-times config option to preserve the timestamps on
checkout. I want these timestamps preserved in the .tar.gz archive. I assume
that git would have a similar configuration option, but I've not used git. A
valid test case using git would enable this option. In your test case I see no
timestamps earlier than the time I began the build, but with such an option
enabled, presumably, we would have a valid test of my scenario.
Also I've looked into the plugin source code and I find nothing there that
would cause the source file timestamps to be applied to the destination archive
entries, although it's certainly possible that I've missed where this happens.
I may not respond as promptly as you'd like to your input on this issue because
I cannot get the jira to respect my setting of wanting notification emails on
my bugs, and several requests for help on this have gone unanswered.
> assembly plugin tar.gz format does not preserve timestamps of files it adds
> to archive
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>
> 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.
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