On 9 September 2015 at 08:14, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a scenario where I use a maven reactor multi-modules build to
> orchestrate a vmware OVA build from scratch ( start with ISO, create
> initial VM, apply additional provisioning, export to OVA, deploy, and test)
>
> The poms have properties which can be overridden via -Dx=y to build on
> non-default environment, but there are too many to account for
>
> So far I found
>
> http://www.mojohaus.org/properties-maven-plugin/set-system-properties-mojo.html
> but the initial experiment is not good.
>
> Perhaps, this feature must come from maven core? if so, is it a lot of
> effort to add this feature? and how?
>
> is there a similar need like this from Maven community?
>
> Advice is greatly appreciated
>
Put the properties into a profile in ~/.m2/settings.xml and then activate
it via -P
e.g.
<profile>
<id>ci</id>
<properties>
<rat.skip>true</rat.skip>
</properties>
</profile>
mvn -Pci
With the profile activate rat will now be skipped.
