Untar does not preserve executable bit in Gradle 2.4

[saper (Marcin Cieślak)]

Might be related:

Gradle has a problem expanding large tar files?

I have a 42MB tar.gz file. When I try to expand it with Gradle’s tarTree inside a Copy task: task extractArchives(dependsOn: downloadArchives, type: Copy) { from tarTree(‘test.tar.gz’) into ‘dir’ } I get this error: * What went wrong: Unable to expand TAR ‘/home/me/test.tar.gz’ The tar might be corrupted or it is compressed in an unexpected way. By default the tar tree tries to guess the compression based on the file extension. If you need to specify the compression explicitly please …