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Steve Cohen commented on MASSEMBLY-670:
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Hmm, that is too bad. From the end user point of view, it looks as though
attributes such as <FileMode> and <LineEnding> are equally options of the file
being inserted but actually, <FileMode> is an attribute of the directory entry
and can be applied without affecting the file's modification date, whereas
<LineEnding> is an attribute of the file contents itself and cannot.
As far as your side effect comment goes, I already use multiple filesets but
alas, the ones I most need to apply <lineEnding> to are precisely those where
timestamps matter.
I am going to look at an alternative approach, now that I understand the full
dimensions of the problem. These files all come out of SVN before maven builds
the package. SVN also has line-ending properties and a timestamp-preservation
config option. If SVN can apply the line-ending property and still preserve
the timestamp, that might work. But long term I suppose this is an issue that
Maven should fix, albeit not your highest priority.
> Specifying <lineEnding> option of <fileSet> causes timestamps not to be
> preserved
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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
>
> (Summary originally was "assembly plugin tar.gz format does not preserve
> timestamps of files it adds to archive". Changed to reflect actual issue
> discovered through investigation.)
> 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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