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Hitanjan Sarkar commented on MASSEMBLY-343: ------------------------------------------- I 've tested this on OS X Yosemite, Ubuntu Desktop 14.04, and Suse Linux Enterprise Server. All versions of Java have been 7+ and Oracle JDK ( I hope any JDK>=7 should have worked). Java version "1.7.0_71" I have attached a 'symlink-test' project. > add symbolic links managment (java7+ only supported) > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-343 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-343 > Project: Maven Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Wish > Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2 > Environment: linux, ubuntu > Reporter: Godet Gilles > Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold > Fix For: 2.5 > > Attachments: MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin_fixed.patch, > MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin.patch, symlink-test.tar.gz > > > 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 diff̮̩rent names. extract of archive will not be the > exactly the same as the source of the archive. => this is a test ! -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)
