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If you have a feature whose build.properties sets a root.*.link, (or a perm for that matter), metadata is not published unless there are also root files for the same configuration. For example, the following works root.macosx.cocoa.x86_64=file:pom.xml root.macosx.cocoa.x86_64.link=Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse,eclipse whereas the following does NOT root.macosx.cocoa.x86_64.link=Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse,eclipse FeaturesAction#generateRootFileIUs line 451 (in 3.6.1) has the following conditional around all the IU creation code FileSetDescriptor descriptor = advice.getDescriptor(config); if (descriptor != null && descriptor.size() > 0) { It appears that links and perms are not taken into account.
Is this supposed to work? The question behind this is also: Should it be allowed to link to files that don't exist? So in your example, where does the Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse file come from?
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