Assembly plugin: does package phase have to be run before or during assembly:directory?

[Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm>]

Hi all,

I just need to clarify the behaviour of the assembly plugin. For some 
reason assembly:directory triggers the package phase whether you wanted 
it to or not (a good reason you might not want to run the package phase, 
is that the package phase has already been run).

I see that assembly:directory-inline does not trigger the package phase 
- but - when you run it, it complains that the package phase needs to be 
run (the package phase in this case has already been run).

So the question is:

- Does the assembly plugin need to run the package phase before every 
single invocation? The error message below suggests this is true. In our 
case the package phase takes 10 minutes, meaning that there is little or 
no chance we are ever going to get the assembly plugin config working in 
any cost effective time frame.

- Is there a way to run the assembly plugin _without_ triggering a 
package phase every time?

[INFO] [assembly:directory-inline]
[INFO] 
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Included module: alchemy:alchemy-cdo:jar:4.0.6-SNAPSHOT does not 
have an artifact with a file. Please ensure the package phase is run 
before the assembly is generated.
[INFO] 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Included module: 
alchemy:alchemy-cdo:jar:4.0.6-SNAPSHOT does not have an artifact with a 
file. Please ensure the package phase is run before the assembly is 
generated.
         at 
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:559)

Regards,
Graham
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