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Bug 864250

Summary:	[ Enhancement ] Symlinks inside bundles do not work
Product:	[JBoss] JBoss Operations Network	Reporter:	Larry O'Leary <loleary>
Component:	Provisioning	Assignee:	RHQ Project Maintainer <rhq-maint>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Mike Foley <mfoley>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	JON 3.1.0	CC:	fbrychta, jdoyle, joallen, kejohnso, myarboro, tsegismo
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Target Release:	JON 4.0.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	851021
Clones:	875232 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-07-29 14:48:55 UTC	Type:	Enhancement
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Bug Depends On:	851021
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Description Larry O'Leary 2012-10-09 01:23:32 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of RHQ Bug #851021 +++

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.

--- Additional comment from jlivings on 2012-08-23 02:29:48 EDT ---

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"/>

Comment 6 Filip Brychta 2019-07-29 14:48:55 UTC

JBoss ON is coming to the end of its product life cycle. For more information regarding this transition, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/3827121.
This bug report/request is being closed. If you feel this issue should not be closed or requires further review, please create a new bug report against the latest supported JBoss ON 3.3 version.