[jira] Updated: (MASSEMBLY-76) [assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors

["John Casey (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-76?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Casey updated MASSEMBLY-76:
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    Fix Version/s: 2.2

> [assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors
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>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-76
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-76
>             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jacob Robertson
>             Fix For: 2.2
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> I want to declare a new reusable assembly descriptor.  Then, in my parent pom I can reference that descriptor, and all children projects will be able to do assembly:assembly without specifying the descriptor.  This actually works halfway, but then the assembly plugin can't find the descriptor - because it doesn't live inside of the child project.  I was trying to play around with putting the descriptor in the parent project, but since the packaging has to be "pom" that of course wouldn't work.
> Unless I misunderstand, the way this currently works, I'd have to declare the descriptor for each and every child project.  Which would be very unfortunate, since the 3 supplied predefined descriptors don't meet my needs.
> If there is a way to do this, then the improvement request is to improve the documentation for this since I couldn't figure it out...

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