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Kristian Rosenvold closed MASSEMBLY-479. ---------------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 2.5 Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold Posix support is added through the "tarLongFileMode" setting. (Note; this may have been fixed prior to 2.5 but undocumented. I did not check) > Add option to generate Posix tar files. > --------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-479 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-479 > Project: Maven Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Environment: AIX, systems using Posix tar utility. > Reporter: Jamie Goodyear > Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold > Fix For: 2.5 > > > On some systems gnu tar utility is not present however posix tar does exist. > It would be nice if we could specify as a target "ptar" as a file format to > allow users of the assembly plugin to generate this particular kind of tar > file. As a note, using posix tar to extract a gnu tar file results in > truncated files and other anomalies. > The difference in tar format is described here in detail > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/tar/tar_114.html > As a work around for users that need an archive format, but can not use zip > or gnu tar, they can try building their files into a jar file. The jar > utility can then be used to extract the contents. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)