Holy cow! Wow, just use the versions-maven-plugin, and dump that crazy process.
http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/use-latest-releases-mojo.html On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jay Askren <jay.ask...@gmail.com> wrote: > We've been dealing with this same problem. We ended up using the Maven > Metadata Plugin for Jenkins to list all of the versions and default to the > latest release. Then before running the maven build, we run a groovy script > that we wrote to search through all the poms (we have a multi-module > project), and replace the versions with the correct version from the Maven > Metadata Plugin. It seems to work pretty well. This way it will default to > the latest release, but we can override it if desired. > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Byte Flinger <byteflin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> It's funny you mention that. I just spent the last hour trying to do the >> exact same thing. >> Its quite an annoyance that there is no simple way of telling the plugin >> to do that. >> >> You'd expect that use-latest-releases mojo would do the trick but it does >> not. It ignores snapshot dependencies and only works if the dependency is >> not snapshot. >> >> I think the only solution at the moment is to simply either write your own >> plugin or run your own modified version of the versions plugin. >> >> On 24 Jul 2014 18:29, "Jan Nehring" <jan.nehr...@semperlink.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Guys, >>> >>> >>> >>> we have a problem with maven releases and maven version plugin. In >>> Jenkins we want to do releases automatically upon pressing a button. To >>> remove snapshot dependencies we want to use the maven versions plugin. >>> Suppose we have two projects A (latest release 0.0.1, latest snapshot >>> 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT) and project B with a dependency on ProjectA - 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT >>> and we want to release project B. How can we upgrade project Bs dependencies >>> to the latest available release version? The maven versions plugin goal >>> "use-releases" does not change the 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT dependency because there >>> is no 0.0.2 release version of this project. >>> >>> >>> >>> So my question is: how can we automatically remove snapshot dependencies >>> and replace them with the latest available release version in our scenario? >>> >>> >>> >>> Best regards Jan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
