Creating a tar.gz archive with Maven

Question

I have a Maven project, where under src/main directory there is a sub dir called output. this folder needs to be packaged into tar.gz. when using the assembly plugin as follows:

Answer 1

You need to configure the assembly descriptor to not include the base directory and to configure an output directory for the fileSet:

  bundle
  
    tar.gz
  
  false
  
    
      src/main/output
      output
    
  

With the above assembly descriptor, I get the following result (when running on a project reproducing the structure):

$ mvn clean assembly:assembly
...
$ cd target
$ tar zxvf Q3330855-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bundle.tar.gz 
output/
output/hello.txt

See also

• The Assembly Descriptor Format reference