Hi all, This problem was actually to do with the names of the tar file and what the folders were in named inside the tar file - it was not to do with the macro property expansion (which I also thought was the problem)
basically the tar was called james-server-binary-next-major (james distro built from the current james trunk), but inside this the folders were called james-server-next-major. So when I scp'd the file to the server with james.version = james-server-binary-next-major, the scp command worked, and the tar command worked, but the output from the tar command produced james-server-next-major - this looked like incorrect output, and later on in the build there was a failure because the a symbolic link wasn't pointing to the expanded tar it was pointing to a non-existent location. Simple fix was to rename the tar I was uploading to james-server-next-major (same name as the folder inside the tar) and change the property to james-server-next-major and everything worked fine. Took 2 days to sort out though. Kev --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
