Re: [pde-build-dev] Problems with package script and gzipped tars

[Urs Reupke <ureupke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have found my files. There is nothing wrong with tar/tar.gz itself, 
rather, I believe a bug to exist in the script-generating 
"UnzipperGenerator".

Evidence:
If a file is handled as a zip file, it is unzipped twice, once with

<exec executable="unzip" dir="${tempDirectory}/.">
and again, with slightly different parameters, using
<exec executable="unzip" dir="${tempDirectory}/aix.motif.ppc/.">

For tars, there is are corresponding lines

<exec executable="tar" dir="${tempDirectory}/.">
and
<exec executable="tar" dir="${tempDirectory}/.">
where the second call has once again slightly different parameters.

Thus, the root files for the application do not end up in the config 
specific folder as they should, but instead are extracted to the 
platform-independent 'eclipse' folder only.

The relevant methods in the source code are 
UnzipperGenerator.generateUntarRootFiles(String[]) and 
UnzipperGenerator.generateUnzipRootFiles(String[])

I have filed this as bug 174422 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174422

-Urs


Urs Reupke wrote:
> Followup: I have solved the filename problem, previously having ignored 
> the customTargets.xml file.
>
> The rest of my questions (up to and including the difference in results 
> between 'antTar' and 'tar') remains valid.
>
> Regards
> -Urs
>
> Urs Reupke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am working with Markus Knauer on the Eclipse Packaging Project,
> > and (following Pascals advice in the e.t.packaging NG) have written 
> > some code to use the PDE Packager to create distributable RCP 
> > applications from (more or less) thin air.
> >
> > The code uses features and plugins retrieved from update sites in 
> > conjunction with the root files of the RCP.
> > Said root files are my reason for writing to you, since the packager 
> > does not work properly if the Packager Map refers to the root file 
> > archived as a gzipped tar archive instead of a zip.
> > In the documentation[1] it is "suggested that you build *nix packages 
> > on a *nix machine to ensure that file permissions are preserved." This 
> > could also mean that .tar.gzs are not supported as an input format - 
> > does it?
> >
> > Moreover, there's a (presumably related) problem with the packager's 
> > output: No matter the specified output archive format for a platform, 
> > the files end up being called ".zip".
> > When the archive format is set to "antTar", this ".zip" is actually a 
> > broken .tar.gz, while setting the format to simple "tar" yields a 
> > gzipped tar with the correct contents (and just a 'wrong' file name.)
> > Is this a problem easily overcome by configuring the packager 
> > correctly, or is there something wrong with my system setup?
> >
> > Thanks for your support
> > -Urs
> >
> > [1]http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tasks/pde_packager.htm 
> >
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