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

Try setting outputDirectory in the fileSet. That should remove the src/main/output directories.

  src/main/output
  .

You may also need to set includeBaseDirectory to false. That would remove the name directory.

  bundle 
  false