Version 1.4 no longer supports user and group settings for files

[gruberrolandfiducia]

Example:

from('content') {
    into '/usr/share/mypackage/content'
    user 'myuser'
    group 'mygroup'
}

This will result in an exception:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '.../build.gradle' line: 39

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project '...'.

  org.gradle.api.internal.file.copy.CopySpecImpl_Decorated.setUser(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;

Maybe this was lost with the Gradle 1.7 compatibility changes?

[merscwog]

This was broken with the 1.7 changes, although user = 'myuser' and group = 'mygroup' will work.

The opposite problem is occurring with some changes being worked on to have the rpm plugin work with Gradle 1.8 (and ideally 1.9+). It supports user 'myuser' and group 'mygroup', but using = results in undesired behavior using Gradle 1.8.

Unfortunately, for Gradle 1.9-rc-3, none of the plugin variants currently work either way for per-copyspec user or group assignment due to internal changes made to Gradle that haven't been worked around yet. Well, technically the current plugin doesn't work with anything newer than Gradle 1.7.

-Spencer