| <!-- tar task --> |
| <external> |
| <description> |
| <p>Creates a tar archive.</p> |
| |
| <p>The <i>basedir</i> attribute is the reference directory from where to tar.</p> |
| |
| <p>This task is a <a href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based task</a> |
| and, as such, forms an implicit <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">Fileset</a>. This |
| defines which files, relative to the <i>basedir</i>, will be included in the |
| archive. The tar task supports all the attributes of Fileset to refine the |
| set of files to be included in the implicit fileset.</p> |
| |
| <p>In addition to the implicit fileset, the tar task supports nested filesets. These |
| filesets are extended to allow control over the access mode, username and groupname |
| to be applied to the tar entries. This is useful, for example, when preparing archives for |
| Unix systems where some files need to have execute permission.</p> |
| |
| <p>Early versions of tar did not support path lengths greater than 100 |
| characters. Modern versions of tar do so, but in incompatible ways. |
| The behaviour of the tar task when it encounters such paths is |
| controlled by the <i>longfile</i> attribute. |
| If the longfile attribute is set to <code>fail</code>, any long paths will |
| cause the tar task to fail. If the longfile attribute is set to |
| <code>truncate</code>, any long paths will be truncated to the 100 character |
| maximum length prior to adding to the archive. If the value of the longfile |
| attribute is set to <code>omit</code> then files containing long paths will be |
| omitted from the archive. Either option ensures that the archive can be |
| untarred by any compliant version of tar. If the loss of path or file |
| information is not acceptable, and it rarely is, longfile may be set to the |
| value <code>gnu</code>. The tar task will then produce a GNU tar file which |
| can have arbitrary length paths. Note however, that the resulting archive will |
| only be able to be untarred with GNU tar. The default for the longfile |
| attribute is <code>warn</code> which behaves just like the gnu option except |
| that it produces a warning for each file path encountered that does not match |
| the limit.</p> |
| |
| <p>Note that this task does not perform compression. You might want to use the |
| <a href="gzip.html">GZip</a> task to prepare a .tar.gz package.</p> |
| </description> |
| |
| <section anchor="examples" name="Examples"> |
| <pre> <tar tarfile="${dist}/manual.tar" basedir="htdocs/manual"/> |
| <gzip zipfile="${dist}/manual.tar.gz" src="${dist}/manual.tar"/></pre> |
| <p>tars all files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory into a file called <code>manual.tar</code> |
| in the <code>${dist}</code> directory, then applies the gzip task to compress |
| it.</p> |
| <pre> <tar destfile="${dist}/manual.tar" |
| basedir="htdocs/manual" |
| excludes="mydocs/**, **/todo.html" |
| /></pre> |
| <p>tars all files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory into a file called <code>manual.tar</code> |
| in the <code>${dist}</code> directory. Files in the directory <code>mydocs</code>, |
| or files with the name <code>todo.html</code> are excluded.</p> |
| |
| <pre> |
| <tar destfile="${basedir}/docs.tar"> |
| <tarfileset dir="${dir.src}/docs" |
| fullpath="/usr/doc/ant/README" |
| preserveLeadingSlashes="true"> |
| <include name="readme.txt"/> |
| </tarfileset> |
| <tarfileset dir="${dir.src}/docs" |
| prefix="/usr/doc/ant" |
| preserveLeadingSlashes="true"> |
| <include name="*.html"/> |
| </tarfileset> |
| </tar></pre> |
| |
| <p> |
| Writes the file <code>docs/readme.txt</code> as |
| <code>/usr/doc/ant/README</code> into the archive. All |
| <code>*.html</code> files in the <code>docs</code> directory are |
| prefixed by <code>/usr/doc/ant</code>, so for example |
| <code>docs/index.html</code> is written as |
| <code>/usr/doc/ant/index.html</code> to the archive. |
| </p> |
| |
| |
| <pre><tar longfile="gnu" |
| destfile="${dist.base}/${dist.name}-src.tar" > |
| <tarfileset dir="${dist.name}/.." mode="755" username="ant" group="ant"> |
| <include name="${dist.name}/bootstrap.sh"/> |
| <include name="${dist.name}/build.sh"/> |
| </tarfileset> |
| <tarfileset dir="${dist.name}/.." username="ant" group="ant"> |
| <include name="${dist.name}/**"/> |
| <exclude name="${dist.name}/bootstrap.sh"/> |
| <exclude name="${dist.name}/build.sh"/> |
| </tarfileset> |
| </tar> </pre> |
| |
| <p>This example shows building a tar which uses the GNU extensions for long paths and |
| where some files need to be marked as executable (mode 755) |
| and the rest are use the default mode (read-write by owner). The first |
| fileset selects just the executable files. The second fileset must exclude |
| the executable files and include all others. </p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Note: </strong> The tar task does not ensure that a file is only selected |
| by one fileset. If the same file is selected by more than one fileset, it will be included in the |
| tar file twice, with the same path.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Note:</strong> The patterns in the include and exclude |
| elements are considered to be relative to the corresponding dir |
| attribute as with all other filesets. In the example above, |
| <code>${dist.name}</code> is not an absolute path, but a simple name |
| of a directory, so <code>${dist.name}</code> is a valid path relative |
| to <code>${dist.name}/..</code>.</p> |
| |
| </section> |
| </external> |