[jira] [Created] (RAT-235) Symlinks are not recognized in a compressed tarball

["Uwe L. Korn (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Uwe L. Korn created RAT-235:
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             Summary: Symlinks are not recognized in a compressed tarball
                 Key: RAT-235
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-235
             Project: Apache Rat
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 0.12
            Reporter: Uwe L. Korn


Using RAT on a directory containing a file and a symlink to it works:

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Summary
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Generated at: 2017-05-09T20:59:02+02:00

Notes: 0
Binaries: 0
Archives: 0
Standards: 2

Apache Licensed: 0
Generated Documents: 0

JavaDocs are generated, thus a license header is optional.
Generated files do not require license headers.

0 Unknown Licenses

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  Files with Apache License headers will be marked AL
  Binary files (which do not require any license headers) will be marked B
  Compressed archives will be marked A
  Notices, licenses etc. will be marked N
  MIT   test/Symlink
  MIT   test/Test.cmake

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No unapproved licenses
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but it fails if you pack this into a {{tar.gz}}:

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Summary
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Generated at: 2017-05-09T20:59:44+02:00

Notes: 0
Binaries: 0
Archives: 0
Standards: 2

Apache Licensed: 0
Generated Documents: 0

JavaDocs are generated, thus a license header is optional.
Generated files do not require license headers.

1 Unknown Licenses

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Files with unapproved licenses:

  test/Symlink

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  Files with Apache License headers will be marked AL
  Binary files (which do not require any license headers) will be marked B
  Compressed archives will be marked A
  Notices, licenses etc. will be marked N
 !????? test/Symlink
  MIT   test/Test.cmake

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 Printing headers for text files without a valid license header...

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== File: test/Symlink
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1 unapproved licences. Check rat report: rat.txt
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