With Maven, you can specify the global settings file (-gs) and the settings file (-s). However, in Jenkins, you can specify the settings files (even severals) through the Jenkins UI and choose which one in your job
Jeff On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Mickael Istria <mist...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know if it is possible to pass an additional settings.xml file > to Maven. > > Here is the use case: > We have a project, and CI is built on Jenkins. On Jenkins, it is allowed > to deploy stuff onto Nexus. So the settings.xml for Jenkins specifies the > necessary credentials in order to push to Nexus. We do not own the > settings.xml file, so we can't simply modify it. Also, it changes often, so > I can't simply copy it for my project and add what I want to it: it would > get out of sync pretty fastly, and a lot of stuff -such as deployent- won't > work any longer. > For our projects, we would like to use some mirrors, that are specific to > our project, and that may change often. Then it wouldn't make sense to put > them in the global settings.xml (that we can't change as we want). So I > want to have mirrors but can't edit nor replace the current settings.xml. I > thought maybe there is a way to "append" another settings.xml file through > command-line, for project-specific settings. > Does anyone how to achieve that? Or have a workaround for my use-case? > > Thanks in advance for your insights. > -- > Mickael Istria > Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> > My blog > <http://mickaelistria.**wordpress.com<http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com>> > - My Tweets > <http://twitter.com/**mickaelistria<http://twitter.com/mickaelistria> > > > -- Jeff MAURY "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. - Bjarne Stroustrup http://www.jeffmaury.com http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com http://www.twitter.com/jeffmaury
