How to remove the ZIP targets/archives from the 'distribution' plugin

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1

I’m using the ‘distribution’ plugin together with the ‘ivy-publish’ plugin to publish a tar.gz file. The distribution plugin is automatically adding ${distribution.name}DistZip targets and ZIP archives. When I use gradle uploadArchives I produces and uploads the tar.gz and ZIP archive. I would like to get rid of all the ZIP archives and tasks as I don’t need both (tar.gz and ZIP). I tried with

project.tasks.findAll { it.name.contains('Zip') }.each { task ->
  logger.info("Removing ${task}")
  project.tasks.remove(task)
}

but this only removes the tasks and not the ZIP archive. How can I get rid of the ZIP archives? Thx

2

If you are using the ‘ivy-publish’ plugin then you shouldn’t be using the ‘uploadArchives’ task. That task is used by the old publishing mechanism.

3

Thanks for your reply. I’m now building the tar file using the Tar task. Together with ivy-publish and two declared artifacts inside the IvyPublication configuration this works fine.