A useful trick for this is to use a combination of a selector and a patternset. The patternset defines all the files you want to include and the selector defines the subset of these files that need to have execute permission:

<patternset id=”all.files”>
<include name=”src/**”/>
<include name=”lib/**”/>
</patternset>
<selector id=”executable.files”>
<or>
<filename name=”src/foo/exec.sh” />
<filename name=”lib/bar/**” />
</or>
</selector>

Now you can do:

<tar destfile=”${buildfile.name}” longfile=”gnu”>
<tarfileset dir=”${builddir}” filemode=”755″>
<patternset refid=”all.files” />
<selector refid=”executable.files” />
</tarfileset>
<tarfileset dir=”${builddir}”>
<patternset refid=”all.files” />
<not><selector refid=”executable.files” /></not>
</tarfileset>
</tar>

It’s probably not worth doing this for this simple example, but for more complex patterns and selectors it’s a very useful approach.

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It’s probably not worth doing this for this simple example, but for more complex patterns and selectors it’s a very useful approach.

Now you can do:

It’s probably not worth doing this for this simple example, but for more complex patterns and selectors it’s a very useful approach.