GitHub user ottobackwards opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/349
METRON-558 use posix for gnu tar with maven assembly plugin This allows it to handle large group id's and resolves the following error [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 09:36 min [INFO] Finished at: 2016-11-09T10:13:17-05:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 177M/1916M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.6:single (build-tarball) on project metron_mpack: Execution build-tarball of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.6:single failed: group id '397160923' is too big ( > 2097151 ). Use STAR or POSIX extensions to overcome this limit -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. The typical answer is to configure the plugin to use posix for tarLongFileMode. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ottobackwards/incubator-metron METRON-558 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/349.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #349 ---- commit 1f3900a90ecddb69c64a2074c9af131ff24b91f4 Author: Otto Fowler <ofow...@industrialdefender.com> Date: 2016-11-09T18:35:24Z METRON-558 use posix for gnu tar with maven assembly plugin to handle large groupID's ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---