Efficient way to copy artifacts(with symlinks) across workspace

[Jenkinsnewbie]

I have a very specific issue. Problem is: I need to copy artifacts from one directory in workspace to another. some of the artifacts  contain symlinks. I use the solution as provided in: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/e15b2e19e394f5d63183f01a2e72a14115a0c370 i.e. taring the source and untaring at destination. But it sometimes fail at the slaves.

Does anyone have a better solution?

Thanks!

[John Mellor]

“tar” functionality does not nicely handle links, and never has.  How about using “cpio –pdum” or “pax” to copy the directory?

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Will "cpio -dum" work in Windows?

[Jason Pyeron]

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> Will "cpio -dum" work in Windows?

With cygwin, how were you handling links before on windows?

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> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:35:39 UTC+1, John Mellor wrote:
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> "tar" functionality does not nicely handle links, and

> never has. How about using "cpio -pdum" or "pax" to copy the

> directory?
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> I have a very specific issue. Problem is: I need to
> copy artifacts from one directory in workspace to another.
> some of the artifacts contain symlinks. I use the solution
> as provided in:
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/e15b2e19e394f5d631
> 83f01a2e72a14115a0c370

> <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/commit/e15b2e19e394f5d63
> 183f01a2e72a14115a0c370> i.e. taring the source and untaring

> at destination. But it sometimes fail at the slaves.
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> Does anyone have a better solution?
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> Thanks!
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[Jenkinsnewbie]

I am not sure if Windows supports symlinks.

But the current requirement  is to support at least Linux and may be Windows.

[John Mellor]

Ø  Will "cpio -dum" work in Windows?

 

Pax is implemented natively on Windows, so use it by preference.  It will understand that it will need to follow symlinks on Windows, seeing as windows has no concept of symlinks.

 

Cpio and tar are also present in the Cygwin toolkit, so if you are using unix tools, install Cygwin.

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[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
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> I am not sure if Windows supports symlinks.
> But the current requirement is to support at least Linux and
> may be Windows.
>

If you can run tar, then you can run cpio. We use cygwin for that on windows.