Gitlab CI/CD artifacts. How to get the contents of a subdirectory by relative path?

Question

Continuous Integration

There is a project in Gitlab. (Tab stops are not displayed here, I apologize for the crookedly written question)
Structure:
root
/folder1/
/folder2/
/desc.txt

In CI/CD I want to export.zip the contents of the root directory without including it in the archive.
A piece of .gitlab-ci.yml
package:
artifacts:
name: 'export'
paths: 'root/'

But the entire structure is put into the archive, starting with root. How to exclude it, help pliz.

Answer 1

Try to pack the contents yourself as you need a separate command in the pipeline, and then add it to the artifact.
In the script of the required step, add to the end:
zip -r archive.zip root/*
Specify the generated archive as an artifact:
artifacts: archive.zip