Groovy/Gant Tasks for (un)Tar and G(un)zip Fail To Work Like Native OS Commands
I might have picked the wrong project on which to follow through with my vow to ditch shell scripts for Groovy scripts.
The Labs was recently engaged to do build monkey work on a very interesting Android project (can’t reveal the details just yet.) One of the scripts we wrote for this project builds .dat images to flash the Android device. The first cut of the script failed to work when I used Ant tasks to do the tar’ing and gzip’ing. But when I replaced the Ant tasks with calls to the native Unix utiltiies the problem went away.
One of my colleagues suggested permissions might be the problem. Unfortunately, our deadline was so tight I was unable to follow up and verify this hypothesis.
The moral of the story is — I guess — that if the consumer of the gzip’d tar ball that you created with Gant tasks chokes on said tarball, then you should try dropping down to the native OS commands.
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