Hi all, My first message was rejected as s p a m sob sob. I have a problem regarding relativePaths, inheritance and aggregation, and need some help please. I tested this in maven 2.0.5 I have the following directory structure
main: - pom.xml parent: - pom.xml son: - pom.xml - grandson: - pom.xml Inheritance goes like this: parent > son > grandson; and aggregation goes like: main < son and son < grandson. Whenever I make a fresh mvn install (fresh meaning my local repository is clean w/o anyone of my artifacts) from the main I get and error because son artifact cant find the parent POM. I'm using relativePath to indicate where the son should search for his parent. Here is the code: Main pom: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>maven-test</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> <modules> <module>son</module> </modules> </project> Parent pom: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns=" http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <packaging>pom</packaging> <version>0.0.1</version> </project> Son pom: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId> org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath> </parent> <groupId> org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>son</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> <modules> <module>grandson</module> </modules> </project> Grandson POM: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project> <modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>son</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath> </parent> <groupId>org.migs.ejemplos</groupId> <artifactId>grandson</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> </project> And here is a part of the ST: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/trabajo/migs.org/ejemplos/maven-test> mvn install -e + Error stacktraces are turned on. [INFO] Scanning for projects... Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/migs/ejemplos/parent/0.0.1/parent-0.0.1.pom [WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central ( http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.migs.ejemplos:son:pom:0.0.1 Reason: Cannot find parent: org.migs.ejemplos:parent for project: org.migs.ejemplos:son:pom:0.0.1 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Cannot find parent: org.migs.ejemplos:parent for project: org.migs.ejemplos:son:pom:0.0.1 at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:278) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java :115) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java :39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java :315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java :430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot find parent: org.migs.ejemplos:parent for project: org.migs.ejemplos:son:pom:0.0.1 at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage ( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1161) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1176) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:674) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal (DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:416) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build ( DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:192) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:515) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java :447) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects (DefaultMaven.java :491) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java :491) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:351) ... 11 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: POM ' org.migs.ejemplos:parent' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository The thing is when I comment the aggregation part on the son pom (comment the modules section) the main installs correctly, or obviously if I install the parent first. But I think this should build from the main pom just right. Thanks Miguel