maven-assembly-plugin 2.3 and parent pom

[Simon Temple]

Hi

I'm trying to use the assembly plugin to build a product distribution.  I 
include a parent POM declaration in my POM.  The parent POM has many 
dependencies (mixed scope: compile, provided and test)

When I execute make-assembly the resulting distribution does not contain the 
dependent artifacts defined in my parent POM.

Looking at the  'effective POM' I can see the parent POM dependencies, yet the 
assembly plugin does not include them in the distribution.

Is this a bug in the assembly-plugin or am I doing something wrong?

assembly.xml:

<assembly

    <id>distro</id>
    
    <formats>
        <format>dir</format>
    </formats>
    
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    
    <fileSets>
        <fileSet>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
        </fileSet>
    </fileSets>

    <dependencySets>
        <dependencySet>
            <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
        </dependencySet>
    </dependencySets>
    
</assembly>

pom.xml:

<snip>

<parent>
        <artifactId>my-parent.pom</artifactId>
        <groupId>com.name.product</groupId>
        <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

<snip>

If I explicitly add dependencies to my POM then the assembly plugin correctly 
adds them to the lib folder of my distribution.


TIA



Simon Temple