[SOLVED] Re: Property for the location of the local repository

[Hilco Wijbenga <hi...@gmail.com>]

On 21 October 2010 09:49, Jon Paynter <ki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Martin Höller <ma...@xss.co.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Wednesday 20 October 2010 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>> > On 11 October 2010 21:48, Hilco Wijbenga <hi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > I could have sworn I've used ${localRepository} before but it doesn't
>> > > seem to work. I've also tried ${settings.localRepository} and
>> > > ${maven.repo.local}. How do I refer to the location of the local
>> > > repository in a portable way? Is there a difference between Maven2 and
>> > > Maven3?
>> >
>> > I had a look in the source code and found the following:
>> >
>> [...]
>> > Is there some documentation on how properties are handled internally?
>>
> I don't know what is actually the prefered way of accessing the path to the
>> local repository (but I'm quite sure I saw discussions about it on this
>> list before). However, running your example pom.xml works as soon as I
>> changed ${maven.local.repo} to ${settings.localRepository}. This is working
>>  with maven 2.2.1 and maven 3.0-beta-3.
>
>
>  I was wondering the same thing - and I just ended up creating my own custom
> property.
>
> If you find a built-in property, please let us know.

Mystery solved. The problem I ran into was related to
maven-antrun-plugin. Version 1.4 apparently has a serious bug with
properties (I didn't actually check whether anything was reported).

If I use version 1.6 (the latest at this time) then
${settings.localRepository} works as expected.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org