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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Ben Stover <bx...@yahoo.co.uk> on 2010/12/26 14:14:36 UTC

How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

I want to move the location of the settings.xml away from the users home directory into another (.e.g. the Maven installation directory).

How can I achieve this for the cmdline usage (=NOT Eclipse) ?

Yes, I know I can pass an additional parameter like

mvn -s "D:\maven\settings.xml" install

but I want to omit completely any such parameters.

I prefer to have Maven auto-detect the settings.xml in its own installation directory.

Is this possible at all?

Ben




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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by Greg Akins <an...@gmail.com>.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Guo Du <mr...@duguo.org> wrote:
>> I prefer to have Maven auto-detect the settings.xml in its own installation directory.
> Looks like you just want put your settings inside M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
>

Or.. mvn is a shell script (or batch file)

You could just modify that script


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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by benxs <bx...@yahoo.co.uk>.
Thank you.

One more last question:

Assume I use such an external Maven installation from Eclipse (= not the
internal, embedded Maven from Eclipse).

Does Eclipse pay attention to the preferences (e.g. the location of the
Repository) in these settings.xmls
as well?


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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml is the GLOBAL settings. They are always
read, first. The the user's settings come in on top.


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM, benxs <bx...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Looks like you just want put your settings inside M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
>
> Thank you. That sounds interesting!
>
> Does that mean that Maven reads automatically every time it starts
> the file
>
> M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
>
> before the file
>
> <userhome>/.m2/settings.xml
>
> ? Does Maven read both or only the first file it finds?
> Which one has priority?
>
> Where is this fact written?
> I have not seen this.
>
> Thank you
> Ben
>
>
>
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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by Guo Du <mr...@duguo.org>.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, benxs <bx...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> ? Does Maven read both or only the first file it finds?
> Which one has priority?
Based on org.apache.maven.settings.building.DefaultSettingsBuilder
implementation, maven read both and merge them on runtime.

<userhome>/.m2/settings.xml taken priority.

> Where is this fact written?
Saw a discussion [1] but it would be helpful to documented at [2]

-Guo

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1261215/which-maven-settings-xml-files
[2] http://maven.apache.org/settings.html

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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by benxs <bx...@yahoo.co.uk>.
> Looks like you just want put your settings inside M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml 

Thank you. That sounds interesting!

Does that mean that Maven reads automatically every time it starts
the file

M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml 

before the file

<userhome>/.m2/settings.xml

? Does Maven read both or only the first file it finds?
Which one has priority?

Where is this fact written?
I have not seen this.

Thank you
Ben



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Re: How to setup location of settings.xml NOT by cmdline?

Posted by Guo Du <mr...@duguo.org>.
> I prefer to have Maven auto-detect the settings.xml in its own installation directory.
Looks like you just want put your settings inside M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml

Happy holiday!

-Guo

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