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Kristian Rosenvold commented on MASSEMBLY-479:
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Posix is fully supported in modern versions of archiver. I see that the docs do
not document this, but setting tarLongFileMode to posix should hopefully do the
trick
> Add option to generate Posix tar files.
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> 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
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> 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.
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