Maven assembly Plugin - ignore pom packaging

["Rahamim, Ben" <br...@paypal.com.INVALID>]

Hi all,

TL;DR – why isn’t a flag in the Maven assembly Plugin allowing to skip POMs with packaging “pom” ?

I have a question about using the Maven assembly Plugin.

We have a parent POM, called “super-parent”, which is being used as a parent to all of our projects. It includes all of the dependencies & the maven assembly plugin, set to create a tar.gz.

One of its children the “runtime-super-parent”, which all of the other projects use as a parent, and it has “pom” as packaging type, as required. Now, even though we don’t need it, the assembly plugin creates a tar.gz to this POM as well, taking a lot of space in our repositories.

The logical thing to me was to have a flag allowing us to exclude the pom packaged projects from the plugin, hence the name “pom” packaging.

Is there any way to achieve this? I haven’t found one.

Thanks in advance,
Ben

Re: Maven assembly Plugin - ignore pom packaging

[Manfred Moser <ma...@simpligility.com>]

You should NOT have a plugin execution defined in a pom packaging project if it works as an aggregator. Instead just define it in pluginManagement and add it where you want the exection to be happening.

Manfred

Rahamim, Ben wrote on 2018-05-23 02:03:

> Hi all,
> 
> TL;DR – why isn’t a flag in the Maven assembly Plugin allowing to skip POMs
> with packaging “pom” ?
> 
> I have a question about using the Maven assembly Plugin.
> 
> We have a parent POM, called “super-parent”, which is being used as a
> parent to all of our projects. It includes all of the dependencies & the maven
> assembly plugin, set to create a tar.gz.
> 
> One of its children the “runtime-super-parent”, which all of the other
> projects use as a parent, and it has “pom” as packaging type, as required.
> Now, even though we don’t need it, the assembly plugin creates a tar.gz to
> this POM as well, taking a lot of space in our repositories.
> 
> The logical thing to me was to have a flag allowing us to exclude the pom
> packaged projects from the plugin, hence the name “pom” packaging.
> 
> Is there any way to achieve this? I haven’t found one.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben
> 


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