Maven Archiver putting in weird line breaks in classpath for manifest

Question

Per the java spec the classpath line in the manifest.mf for a jar can only be a certain number of bytes. After that a line break is inserted and the new line begins with an

Answer 1

I was struggling ~8 hours. Plexus archiver always repacks/restructures your MANIFEST file if even you specify custom one. Line breaks are always added (72 chars limitation) There is no way to change this behaviour plexus archiver code I found the following workaround. I started using truezip-maven-plugin to update generated ear:

        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            truezip-maven-plugin
            
                
                    replace-broken-manifest
                    
                        copy
                    
                    package
                    
                      
                        
                          src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
                          ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}/META-INF