ArchiveWriter: support explicit entries and rewrite internal symlinks#652
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mazdak wants to merge 2 commits intoapple:mainfrom
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ArchiveWriter: support explicit entries and rewrite internal symlinks#652mazdak wants to merge 2 commits intoapple:mainfrom
mazdak wants to merge 2 commits intoapple:mainfrom
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Context and Motivation
While building out a Docker Compose-style plugin and validating it against our own real development stack, we ran into two classes of problems in the build-context path, and to fix them we had to make changes to the
containerapp, but part of the changes were archive-authoring concerns and belong inContainerizationArchive, not in higher-level callers. The result is a reusable API for explicit archive creation and more portable archives when symlinks point to other archived content.(Related
containerPR: apple/container#1391)This PR adds a generic explicit-entry archive API to
ContainerizationArchiveand improves symlink handling so archives remain relocatable after extraction.In addition to
archiveDirectory(_:), callers can now provide an ordered list of source entries to archive. This makes it possible to archive a precomputed file set without rewalking the source tree and centralizes symlink handling in the archive layer itself.Testing
Passed: