The guiding principal is that only explicit versions are modified. If
it introduced an override into project A then that would defeat the
point of depMgmt in P.
If you run the plugin on project P's pom, it will process the deps and
the depMgmt by default, i.e. see
http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/use-latest-versions-mojo.html#processDependencyManagement
-Stephen
On 22 May 2012 14:32, Achim Abeling <achim.abel...@freenet-ag.de> wrote:
> Is there a reason why the plugin cannot update versions from managed
> dependencies?
>
> If I have to define a version in my project A for dependency B the
> dependencyManagement in my parent pom gets rather useless, isn't it?
>
> Best regards
> Achim
>
> On 22.05.2012 13:54, Stephen Connolly wrote:
>> If you don't specify the version in the pom you are running on, then
>> it will not add the version.
>>
>> If you run against the P pom then it will update that one
>>
>> On 22 May 2012 11:36, Achim Abeling <achim.abel...@freenet-ag.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> we have the following scenario:
>>>
>>> - project A has project P with version 1 as parent.
>>> - project P in version 1 defines project B with version 1 in it's
>>> dependencyManagement section.
>>> - project A has project B as dependency without defining the version and
>>> therefore inherits the version from the parent project P
>>>
>>> Normally, project A uses version 1 of project B.
>>>
>>> Now, there are newer versions of project B in the repository, say version 2.
>>>
>>> Using
>>> # mvn versions:display-dependency-updates
>>> on project A correctly says something like
>>>
>>> [INFO] The following dependencies in Dependency Management have newer
>>> versions:
>>> ...
>>> [INFO] project B ..................... 1 -> 2
>>>
>>> But calling
>>> # mvn versions:use-latest-versions
>>> does not change the pom.xml.
>>>
>>> I would expect the versions-plugin to add
>>> <version>2</version>
>>> to the dependency definition for project B.
>>>
>>> What can I do?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Achim
>>>
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