How to preserve symlinks when unpacking tar using maven assembly plugin
maven, maven-2, maven-3, maven-assembly-plugin
Solution
Preserving symlinks is not supported in any of the maven plugins at the momenet. I got around this problem by using the maven executor plugin that would execulte a shell script and tar and untar artifacts for me.
Problem
I am writting a maven assembly descriptor and one of the task is to download a tar file, unpack it before creating a final tarball out of many components. I cant figure out how to preserve symlinks from the tar using the maven assembly plugin. Has anybody seen this issue before? ``` <assembly> <id>myassembly</id> <formats> <format>dir</format> </formats> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> <dependencySets> <dependencySet> <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact> <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory> <unpack>true</unpack> </dependencySet> </dependencySets> </assembly> ```