I need to create Tar archive and want to make ONE file executable (file mode: 755) and leave permissions for other files as is. When I do it in the following way this permission (755) is applied to each file in the archive. What do I wrong?
task myArchive(type: Tar) {
baseName = “archive”
compression = Compression.GZIP
extension = “tar.gz”
into (“archive”) {
from(“src”) {
include “start”
fileMode 0755
}
}
into (“archive/lib”) {
from(configurations.runtime)
}
}
The ugly workaround of course is to use ant.tar like this:
ant.tar(destfile:‘build/libs/server.tar.gz’, compression: ‘gzip’, longfile:‘gnu’) {
include(name:‘server/**’)
tarfileset(dir:‘build/tmp/tarball/’) {
include(name:‘server/**’)
exclude(name:‘server/bin/*.sh’)
}
tarfileset(dir:‘build/tmp/tarball/’, filemode:‘755’) {
include(name:‘server/bin/*.sh’)
}
}
But really there should be a way to do this natively within gradle… but I don’t know what it is.
What I’d really like to do is get this working for the distribution plugin…
But the following doesn’t work:
ext {
tarballDir = new File(‘build/tarball’)
}
distributions {
ui {
baseName = ‘ui’
contents {
from {
tarballDir
exclude (’**/bin/*.sh’) // 1
}
from {
tarballDir
include (’**/bin/*.sh’)
fileMode 755
}
}
}
This idea came from http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/how-do-I-preserve-or-even-set-file-permissions-in-Tar-task-td4892337.html which might be a solution to the original question (haven’t tested it directly yet), but I’m baffled as to why the above doesn’t work.
When I do the above I get:
Converting class org.gradle.api.internal.file.copy.DefaultCopySpec_Decorated to File using toString() method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0. Please use java.io.File, java.lang.String, java.net.URL, or java.net.URI instead.
:uiDistTar UP-TO-DATE
And the tar is never built if I remove the excludes marked // 1 and the second from the tarball builds just fine.
Ah found it…
from( tarballDir ) {
exclude (’**/bin/*.sh’)
}
from ( tarballDir ) {
include (’**/bin/*.sh’)
fileMode 0755
}
That works! (watch out for 0755 vs 755… 755 does not do what you expect!)