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Ahmed El-Madhoun commented on MASSEMBLY-343:
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By the way, I am using Maven 3, but I don't think that is an issue, would it be?
> add symbolic links managment
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> 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_fixed.patch,
> 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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