Is there an ant task that can copy without losing access rights
I know that I can <exec executable="cp" failonerror="true">, but I would really have a task that I can call from any OS that can use all (or at least most) of the attributes in copy, but which does not suck unix permissions.
I am wondering if there is a solution there, or I will have to write my own copy2.
As I was afraid, there is nothing “off the shelf”. We have this code, but it only processes a directory to copy a directory or file to a copy of the file, has custom attributes and does not make any other neat copies.
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<!-- Copy files from A to B -->
<!-- <copy> would do this job, if it weren't such a useless pile of fail -->
<!-- and could manage to preserve execute bits on Linux -->
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<macrodef name="internal-copydir">
<attribute name="fromdir" default="NOT SET" />
<attribute name="todir" default="NOT SET" />
<sequential>
<if>
<os family="windows" />
<then>
<copy todir="@{todir}">
<fileset dir="@{fromdir}" />
</copy>
</then>
<else>
<exec executable="rsync" failonerror="true">
<arg value="-a" />
<arg value="@{fromdir}/" />
<arg value="@{todir}/" />
</exec>
</else>
</if>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<!-- Copy file from A to B -->
<!-- <copy> would do this job, if it weren't such a useless pile of fail -->
<!-- and could manage to preserve execute bits on Linux -->
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<macrodef name="internal-copyfile">
<attribute name="file" default="NOT SET" />
<attribute name="tofile" default="NOT SET" />
<sequential>
<if>
<os family="windows" />
<then>
<copy file="@{file}" tofile="@{tofile}"/>
</then>
<else>
<exec executable="cp" failonerror="true">
<arg value="@{file}" />
<arg value="@{tofile}" />
</exec>
</else>
</if>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
I also wrote this.
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<!-- Copy file to a directory -->
<!-- <copy> would do this job, if it weren't such a useless pile of fail -->
<!-- and could manage to preserve execute bits on Linux -->
<!-- ==================================================================== -->
<macrodef name="internal-copyfiletodir">
<attribute name="file" default="NOT SET" />
<attribute name="todir" default="NOT SET" />
<sequential>
<if>
<os family="windows" />
<then>
<copy file="@{file}" todir="@{todir}"/>
</then>
<else>
<exec executable="cp" failonerror="true">
<arg value="@{file}" />
<arg value="@{todir}/" />
</exec>
</else>
</if>
</sequential>
</macrodef>