[jira] Commented: (MASSEMBLY-343) add symbolic links managment

["Zuhayr Khan (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Zuhayr Khan commented on MASSEMBLY-343:
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I have implemented a solution for symbolic link support in maven-assembly-plugin with changes to plexus-io and plexus-archive (see my comments on PLXCOMP-117)

I will attach a patch for consideration; I think/hope I have followed the coding standards - I am watching this and PLXCOMP-117 so please feel free to ask any questions through comments on whichever is appropriate.

> add symbolic links managment
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-343
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-343
>             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2
>         Environment: linux, ubuntu 
>            Reporter: Godet Gilles
>         Attachments: MASSEMBLY-343_maven-assembly-plugin.patch
>
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> 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 différent names. extract of archive will not be the exactly the same as the source of the archive. => this is a test !

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