The description for the bindex¹ tool mentions the capability to create
a ZIP file of the referenced bundles:

,----
| Additionally, it can simplify the URL handling handling by sweeping up
| all JAR files and placing them in a ZIP file, together with the
| repository.xml file. This ZIP file can be unzipped in a convenient
| place on a web server. The program takes care of many naming issues
| that arise when you try to create a repository. Alternatively, it can
| recurse over a directory structure and just creates a repository.xml
| file. The URLs in that case can be rewritten useing[sic] a template.
`----

This makes it sound as though bindex will operate in one of two modes:
scan a directory structure and create a repository.xml file describing
what it found, or create a ZIP file of all the bundles it finds,
perhaps renaming them to solve some of these "naming issues".

I can't figure out how to elicit the latter behavior. Specifying a
name for the repository file ending with ".zip" does cause bindex to
create a ZIP file, but the only member is the repository.xml file,
regardless of how many JARs I tell bindex to read.

Was this promise of creating an archive of the bundles never
implemented?


Footnotes: 
¹ http://www2.osgi.org/Repository/BIndex

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Steven E. Harris
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