cronutils | utilities to assist running periodic batch processing jobs | Cron Utils library

I am currently migrating an application from maven to gradle (4.10.2). In maven, a tar.gz-file would be generated with configuration, dependencies and some empty directories that would then be used by the application during runtime.

In gradle i am using the distribution plugin to create the tar.gz using the distTar-Task.

To create the empty directories inside the tar.gz, i create them in the build-directory and then have them copied by distTar into the tar.gz.

I managed to finally get this by creating a task createEmptyDirectories that would just create the directories and be done with it. distTar would dependOn this task so that the directories are created before the tar.gz or so i thought.

The task createEmptyDirectories however is always skipped during build (using gradle clean build):

I am trying to implement spring cache in my project so I added the following dependency as follows,