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How to copy config files as part of packaging for use in deployment?

I use sbt 0.13.5 to build a project with a few config files meant to be human-edited after deployment.

Using sbt-native-packager's stage command builds my basic output directory structure for deployment. This results in a bin folder with a start script and all my jars in a lib folder. Great.

That just leaves the text config files that should be copied into a conf folder verbatim alonside the bin/ and lib/ folders (not included in any jar).

How can I copy these configuration files to the output directory on the filesystem (not into any jars) using sbt?

Solution

  • Default Universal convention is to copy files/directories under src/univeral/. So, to include a conf/ directory in the distribution, just add src/universal/conf and copy configuration files there. Credit: this link