I found the root cause of this issue where I need to force a '-z' option during native tar compression. Without this flag, the output is just a normal tar file where native tar is very smart to figure this out. Where are plexus-archiver only looks for gz signature and bails out.
Thanks -Dan On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a number of tar.gz artifacts packed with cygwin/linux tar, but > maven-dependency-plugin fails to unpack with with the following error ( > have you seen this) > > Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: Not in GZIP format > at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readHeader(GZIPInputStream.java:164) > at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:78) > at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:90) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.tar.TarUnArchiver$UntarCompressionMethod.decompress(TarUnArchiver.java:191) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.tar.TarUnArchiver$UntarCompressionMethod.access$000(TarUnArchiver.java:112) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.tar.TarUnArchiver.execute(TarUnArchiver.java:86) > ... 26 more > > Thanks > > -Dan > >