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

["Ahmed El-Madhoun (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Ahmed El-Madhoun commented on MASSEMBLY-343:
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Hi Zuhayr,

I am running into a similar issue where I really need to support sym links as part of the assembly procedure.  Do you know what version of the assembly plugin this patch is for?  I would like to apply this patch and use it if possible.

Thanks in advance.

                
> 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
>
>
> 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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