tar --force-local

[sumkincpp]

MSYS/MinGW windows tar is not able to pack files with absolute paths because of the essence of the colons(i.e. "C:\Code..."). Colons are treated by tar as links to remote machines. This is not the case of usage for sbt packager.

So, forcing local, from tar man page :

--force-local
    archive file is local even if it has a colon 

[muuki88]

@sumkincpp can you make sense of the error message? You can run the failing tests with

sbt "scripted universal/publish universal/test-packageName universal/test-zips-no-top-level-dir universal/test-zips"

[sumkincpp]

@muuki88 uploaded output to http://paste.openstack.org/show/nSOFQdWY09nmeb87aFTt/

[muuki88]

yep. Will you be able to fix these?

[sumkincpp]

@muuki88 isn't --force-local an appropriate fix? Or should I write any tests?

[muuki88]

Your fix broke some tests. Point is: "why do the break?". I'm not sure why this is happening and how, but obviously this additional parameter breaks them. At least they all fail for the same reason:

[error] tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
[error] tar: /tmp/sbt_abeab32/simple-test-0.1.0.tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
[error] tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

without having these fixed, I cannot merge this PR.