Hi, If I understand correctly, what you need makes me think about the inheritance relationship between the user settings.xml file and the global one. I just checked checkly using mvn help:effective-settings, and it seems to be cool (global ids also defined in the user are seen as redefinition, might be useful for what you say?).
So, in your case, maybe you could use the remote settings.xml as if if was your global one, and then define the user one with yours. What do you think? Could this work for you? Cheers 2012/9/13 Mickael Istria <[email protected]> > 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> > > > > -- > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > Sauvez un arbre, > Mangez un castor ! > nbsp;! >
