tar is expected to have --force-local option

[mackler]

I am wanting to use sbt-native-packager on FreeBSD (10.2). The base-installation of tar in this version of FreeBSD lacks the --force-local option. I have gnu's tar, which has the --force-local option, installed on the machine, but it is named gtar rather than tar.

It seems that both the name of the tar executable and the --force-local option are hard-coded in the sbt-native-packager source code. On my FreeBSD machine, invoking the universal:packageZipTarball task fails with a complaint about the --force-local option.

Is there any simple work-around of this issue that does not involve renaming the commands on my operating system? If not, is the ability to tell sbt-native-packager to refrain from including the --force-local option when invoking tar, or changing the name of the tar executable a feature that might eventually find its way into this project?

[muuki88]

At this point there's no easy way to change the commands in sbt-native-packager. If you want to change this behaviour in sbt-native-packager you will have to override the task. I recommend aliasing your gtar command to tar. If this is not acceptable for you, please provide a pull request. If you need any help, just ask.