[JIRA] (JENKINS-5597) symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

halvor.lund@gmail.com (JIRA)

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Nov 21, 2016, 10:20:02 AM11/21/16

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Halvor Lund commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

I can confirm that this still is an issue. It seems that symlinks to files are archived correctly, whereas symlinks to directories are not, and the whole directory is copied instead. Any plans for fixing this bug?

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eric@blackbagtech.com (JIRA)

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Jul 20, 2018, 7:41:02 PM7/20/18

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E H commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

As well as being a a size issue, this breaks macOS Frameworks for code signing with a "bundle format is ambiguous (could be app or framework)" message. I found this with stash/unstash, presumably the cause is the same.

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eric@blackbagtech.com (JIRA)

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Jul 20, 2018, 8:03:03 PM7/20/18

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E H commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

Drawing on https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples/blob/master/pipeline-examples/unstash-different-dir/unstashDifferentDir.groovy, the attached "JENKINS-5597-example.groovy" pipeline script will demonstrate the problem of symlinks to directories becoming directories.

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eric@blackbagtech.com (JIRA)

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Jul 20, 2018, 8:03:07 PM7/20/18

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symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

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eric@blackbagtech.com (JIRA)

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Jul 20, 2018, 8:05:02 PM7/20/18

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

Drawing on [https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples/blob/master/pipeline-examples/unstash-different-dir/unstashDifferentDir.groovy,] the attached "JENKINS-5597-example.groovy" pipeline script will demonstrate the problem of symlinks to directories becoming directories.

If the stash-related issue should be a different Jira issue please let me know and I'll create one.

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brian.murrell@intel.com (JIRA)

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Jan 13, 2019, 11:27:03 PM1/13/19

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Brian J Murrell commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

To be certain, this is a BUG not an Improvement. Archiving means to store a copy as is, not to interpret and alter the archive such that it does not reflect what is being archived.

Why does this bug still exist 8.5 years later?

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m_winter@gmx.de (JIRA)

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Mar 20, 2019, 5:42:03 PM3/20/19

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Markus Winter commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

Ran into an issue where a build made out of 1000 directory entries over 11 million for the ant DirectoryScanner because of symlinks to directories that again contains symlinks in a subfolder despite having an exclude pattern on the problematic folders.

archive pattern: gen/**/*log

exclude pattern: gen/out/modules/*/

The symlinks were all below gen/out/modules but DirectoryScanner still tried to read everything in before applying the exclude.

Agent process was started with -Xmx8g and ran oom.

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Mar 24, 2019, 4:34:03 AM3/24/19

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Markus Winter commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

opened a pull request https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/3947 that make follow symlinks configurable

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deshpande.aakash@gmail.com (JIRA)

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Apr 11, 2019, 2:22:04 AM4/11/19

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Aakash Sudhanwa commented on

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Re: symlinks in archive trees lead to double archiving

Will this address a similar issue with stash/unstash as well ?

We are using git to checkout sources - which have symbolic links. Then when the sources are stashed and unstashed the symbolic links are lost. They appear as separate directories. This is leading up to a series of issues including bloating up of the sanbox size.