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In #2086, we documented that the Compress-Archive
PowerShell command produces invalid zip files. In #2087, we fixed this by using the Windows built-in tool tar.exe
. We also tried:
- Using Powershell core (which isn't affected by the Compress-Archive bug).
- Using 7zip
Both attempts failed because the tools in question were not installed on our images. Instead, we used tar.exe
in #2087 as a quick fix. tar.exe
works fine but we should replace it because:
- We use the
-a
flag, which is undocumented (it isn't listed intar --help
zip
support isn't officially mentioned as well- The GNU tar doesn't support the zip format, only bsdtar does.
- The only source for this functionality is "The windows tar.exe is derived from bsdtar and you can find the switches used there".
All of the points mentioned above will bite us sooner than later. We should settle for a more stable/supported solution. Using 7-zip seems the appropriate choice to avoid the brittle Compress-Archive
and the obscure tar.exe
.
For this, we need to install 7-zip on our ci image (https://github.com/SonarSource/dotnet-ci-images/issues/24).
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