Bug 851021

Summary:	Symlinks inside bundles do not work
Product:	[Other] RHQ Project	Reporter:	James Livingston <jlivings>
Component:	Provisioning	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	4.4	CC:	hrupp, joallen, loleary
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	864250 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:		Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	864250

Description James Livingston 2012-08-23 06:06:12 UTC

As per http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6550137, java.util.zip doesn't support symlinks. Since RHQ uses those classes for handling the contents of bundles, it does not support symlinks inside bundles.


A use case for when you may want to do this is installing the EAP 5.1.2 RHEL native components via a bundle. As of 5.1.2, the zip from the customer portal contains symlinks to some OS-provides shared libraries, rather than copies of them.


This is not likely to be easy to fix, without moving to a different archive-handling libraru, and I'm not certain ant supports symlinks in zip files either.

Comment 1 James Livingston 2012-08-23 06:29:48 UTC

A work-around is to put the symlinks (and optionally other files) into a tarball and extract them using the ant script:
  <untar src="abc.tar.gz" compression="gzip" dest="somedirectory"/>