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Jelle Vergeer
Jelle Vergeer

Reputation: 1046

Add files to TeamCity artifact zip

We are using TeamCity as CI and we are struggling with the final build step: We pull a dependency from another build step (a zip) and want to add a few extra files. Do we really need to extract the zip (quite large file), copy the files over there and zip it again? Is there support or a plugin to add files to existing zip files?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1596

Answers (2)

spencerwjensen
spencerwjensen

Reputation: 702

TeamCity itself does not support this and I haven't seen any related plugins, however, if you really need to wait until the final step to add the extra files (maybe you are doing some kind of file generation at this point), then I would recommend using something like 7Zip.

you can update existing zip files (assuming they are not "solid" archives") with a very simple command:

7za.exe u targetZip.zip file.ext

this will add "file.ext" to the zip file "targetZip.zip" without decompressing and re-compressing the archive.

you can find 7Zip here: http://www.7-zip.org/

Upvotes: 1

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038710

It would be much better to include those files at the previous step, which lists which files should be included to the final artifact. Rather than trying to modify the already generated artifact. So basically all you need is to add an additional build step that will simply copy those other files to the output folder from which you are producing your final artifact.

Upvotes: 1

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