[jira] [Created] (MSHARED-1004) Various issues with symbolic links

["Jimisola Laursen (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jimisola Laursen created MSHARED-1004:
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             Summary: Various issues with symbolic links
                 Key: MSHARED-1004
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-1004
             Project: Maven Shared Components
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: maven-filtering
    Affects Versions: maven-filtering-3.3.0
            Reporter: Jimisola Laursen
         Attachments: my-app.tar.gz

Two issues with (relative) symbolic links as resources (use attached file for reference and MWE:

 
{noformat}
msjimlau@earhart:~/dev/test/my-app$ tree
.
├── pom.xml
├── src
│   ├── main
│   │   ├── java
│   │   │   └── com
│   │   │       └── mycompany
│   │   │           └── app
│   │   │               └── App.java
│   │   └── resources
│   │       ├── B -> ../../../to_be_symlinked/B
│   │       └── folder -> ../../../to_be_symlinked/folder
│   └── test
│       └── java
│           └── com
│               └── mycompany
│                   └── app
│                       └── AppTest.java
└── to_be_symlinked
    ├── B
    └── folder
        └── A{noformat}
 

 

 
 * Symlinks for directories copies the actual directory (folder/A) whereas symlinks for files copies the symlink (B). Note the difference between file A and B. B is pointing incorrectly since it is relative.

{noformat}
user@earhart:~/dev/test/my-app/target/classes$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user   26 dec 10 10:19 B -> ../../../to_be_symlinked/B
drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 dec 10 10:19 com
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 dec 10 10:19 folder
user@earhart:~/dev/test/my-app/target/classes$ ls -l folder/
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 dec 10 10:19 A{noformat}
 * Resources are not overwritten (java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException). To reproduce run "mvn compile" two (2x) times:

{noformat}
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:3.2.0:resources (default-resources) on project my-app: copying /home/user/dev/test/my-app/src/main/resources/folder/A to /home/user/dev/test/my-app/target/classes/folder/A failed with FileAlreadyExistsException: /home/user/dev/test/my-app/target/classes/folder/A -{noformat}
 



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