What I do is use the exec task and use the tar command. In order to make it cross platform, I use bsdtar which I was able to find a version for all of our supported platforms. The bsdtar command has compression support so the generated tar both preserves the file permissions AND is compressed like zip would be.
--- Shawn Castrianni -----Original Message----- From: John W. Lewis [mailto:johnw.le...@sas.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:44 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Ant 1.8 unzip does not preserve permissions! <chmod> may be helpful. http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/chmod.html -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bode...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:30 AM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Ant 1.8 unzip does not preserve permissions! On 2010-07-01, ilke Muhtaroglu wrote: > When I unzip with ant command > <unzip src="${app.server.zip.name}" dest="${ext.work.dir}" /> > I see the resulting directory does not have the permissions preserved in > linux environment. This is true. The unzip task doesn't do anything with permissions and the manual page even says so ,---- | File permissions will not be restored on extracted files. `---- > At http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/zip.html I see there is an option > "preserve0permissions"... It is the zip task, not the unzip task. And it applies to permissions read from a different archive when you use the zip task to repackage/merge archives. Ant is capable of dealing with permissions inside ZIP and TAR archives but not on the file system. The latter isn't going to change until the tasks can run on NIO2 and Java7 because the Java File API currently simply doesn't provide the means we'd need. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
