I don't know about plugin-registry.xml, but you can distribute a settings.xml for use with -gs that has an active-by-default profile with a pluginManagement section that does the job.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a requirement where I need to specify specific versions for a > set of (basic) plugins. Adding the versions to the pom isn't an option > because we need to set the plugin versions for a vast number of > _unrelated_ builds. > As I've found at [1], I've manually created a plugin-registry.xml file > with needed plugin versions added. In addition to that, I've created > maven-metadata-local.xml file in the m2 repo under the plugin > directories, pointing to <latest> and <release> versions. > > But, unfortunately, these specified versions were not picked up by > mvn. I needed latest maven-compiler-plugin version 2.3.2, but it > always try to use 2.0.2. I've noticed that [1] is somewhat outdated > because --check-plugin-latest parameter doesn't available anymore. So, > I'm asking, does the plugin-registry.xml is still used by maven? If > not what is the mechanism for specifying specific plugin versions > (apart from current/parent pom)? > > (I've seen in some posts that the plugin-registry.xml isn't used > anymore, but debug mode shows that mvn retrieves data from that file. > ) Apparently, maven-metada-local.xml isn't created automatically for > me either. How I can instruct mvn to do that? > > My plugin-registry.xml is at [2]. (There wasn't a template for that. > So, hope the format is correct!). maven-metadata-local.xml of > maven-compiler-plugin is at [3]. > I'm using official apache maven-2.2.1 build. > > Your help is much appreciated. > > [1] > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-registry.html > [2] http://pastebin.com/yprQU2D2 > [3] http://pastebin.com/Y375dwMg > > Thanks, > --Kasun > > -- > ~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ > Kasun Gajasinghe, > University of Moratuwa, > Sri Lanka. > Blog: http://blog.kasunbg.org > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
