assembly:assembly question

[EJ Ciramella <ej...@upromise.com>]

I'm having a bit of trouble with assemblies.  The goal here is to run
from:
 
/top/pom.xml
 
and have that generate the assembly found in:
 
/top/generic/child/src/main/assembly/dep.xml
 
So I found this link:
 
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/multimodu
le/module-binary-inclusion-simple.html
 
 
But no matter what I do, I can't get this to work.  The only way I've
been able to use the assembly:assembly goal is by cd-ing into the child
directory.
 
With the chance that projects will come and go and I'd really like a
dynamic solution (rather than coding in the top most pom which children
have assemblies), is there a more flexible way to do this?