Is it this https://github.com/mojohaus/versions-maven-plugin/issues/395 Regards, Delany
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, 22:22 Niels Basjes, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I see quite a few situations where the dependencies for toolkit are > provided in the form of a dependency you must "import" in > the dependencyManagement section. > They provide this to ensure you always have a working combination for a lot > of closely related dependencies. > > To illustrate the problem I ran into I created this minimal pom.xml: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd";> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > > <groupId>nl.basjes.example</groupId> > <artifactId>dependency-version-test</artifactId> > <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> > <packaging>jar</packaging> > > <dependencyManagement> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <!-- This is the way we get a consistent set of versions of > the Google tools --> > <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId> > <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId> > <version>19.0.0</version> > <type>pom</type> > <scope>import</scope> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > </dependencyManagement> > > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId> > <artifactId>google-cloud-pubsub</artifactId> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > </project> > > > Now for this example the 19.0.0 is a valid version and absolutely not the > latest version. > What I'm looking for is a command that will give me the advice to update > the 19.0.0 to whatever is currently the latest version. > If I put this in an empty directory and try to get insight in what I need > to upgrade I do this: > > mvn versions:display-dependency-updates > > > The output I get from this is the full list of all underlying dependencies > for which an update is available; yet no mention of the libraries-bom that > is in need of an update. > > What I would like is a list of the things for which an update is available; > yet here I effectively want the opposite of what I get from this plugin: I > only want (should?) get the suggestion to update the libraries-bom and not > the full list of the versions defined in there. > > Is there a way to achieve this? > > -- > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > > Niels Basjes >
