List, I have a gzipped tarball type artifact (<packaging>tar.gz</packaging>) in my repository and a dependency to it (with <type>tar.gz</type>) in my POM. All I want is for the dependency to be resolved and the artifact to be copied to my local repository so that I can copy it out to where it really should go. However, the resolved artifact that ended up in my local repository was 'not in gzip format' according to gzip/tar.
After lengthy investigations I have found out that Maven somehow (and for some as yet unknown reason) *unpacks* the tarball before/during dependency resolution. I.e., the resolved artifact in my local repository is no longer a .tar.gz, just a .tar (Maven doesn't touch the .tar.gz extension/type, though). The same happens if I specify the packaging type as tgz or just gz. If I use zip, though, it does not unpack. Does anyone know why this is, and whether this behaviour is by design or not? Is it possible to turn off the unpacking!? Thanks in advance, - Anders. Anders Blehr Senior Solutions Architect FAST Torggata 2-4-6 N-0181 Oslo, Norway www.fastsearch.com
