Since the parent POM is part of the definition of the artifact, it does have to be installed.
-Stephen On 3/18/06, Rune Flobakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, of course! The new transitive dependency thingie! It worked when I > ran mvn install first on the parent project. > > But I tried to exclude the parent project in the dependency definition > to make maven fetch the project without also looking for the parent POM, > but that didn't work. Must the parent project be installed to the > repository, or is it a way to avoid this? I didn't have to install any > other project than the one sub-project in question when using Maven 1. > > Thanks for your valuable startup help :) > > Rune > > Stephen Duncan skrev: > > Here's the steps as I understand them: > > > > 1) It sees the dependency. > > 2) It attempts to get the dependency's POM, so that it can resolve > > transitive dependencies. > > 3) It sees the <parent> element in the dependency's POM. > > 4) It attempts to get the parent POM so it can have all the > > information it needs for transitive dependencies. > > > > I assume the problem is the parent project has NOT been installed into > > the local repo using mvn install. When you remove the dependency, > > it's ok, because it find the parent pom using the <relativePath> > > element (or it's default, the directory above). When it tries to find > > it for the dependency, however, it doesn't have access to this > > relativePath, so it looks it up the normal way, which is to look in > > the local repo, and if not found, in the remote repos. > > > > -Stephen > > > > On 3/17/06, Rune Flobakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! > >> I've just begun to make a Maven 1 project into a Maven 2 project. The > >> project consists of a parent project with a few sub projects. > >> > >> One of the subprojects depends on another, and with the Maven 1 project > >> I can on the dependee project run 'maven jar:install' to install it to > >> the local repository, and the project depending on it will fetch it when > >> compiling its source. > >> > >> I've managed to make a functional Maven 2 project on the dependee > >> project and installed it to the local Maven 2 repository using 'mvn > >> install'. The project installs nicely to C:\Documents and > >> Settings\Rune\.m2\repository\wsu_khepera\simulator\1.0\simulator-1.0.jar. > >> > >> Now, for the project depending on the just installed artifact, I have > >> defined in pom.xml: > >> > >> <dependencies> > >> <dependency> > >> <artifactId>simulator</artifactId> > >> <groupId>wsu_khepera</groupId> > >> <version>1.0</version> > >> </dependency> > >> </dependencies> > >> > >> But when running 'mvn compile' it seems to try to fetch the parent > >> project from the repository, and the first downloading-message I get is > >> this: > >> > >> Downloading: > >> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tdt4240/group10/robot/0.1/robot-0.1.pom > >> > >> I'm assuming it has already looked in the local repository when trying > >> to download from the default remote one? > >> > >> Why is it looking for the groupId 'tdt4240.group10', artifactId 'robot', > >> version '0.1' which is the parent project, instead of the one I've > >> defined as a dependency? I assume it finds the parent project which I've > >> defined already with <parent>...</parent>, because if I remove the > >> defined dependency and try to compile, I get no errors about missing > >> parent project (but of course compile errors because of the dependency > >> project). > >> > >> I'm a bit stuck on this one, and hope somebody can shed some light on > >> this matter. I'm very familiar with these concepts from Maven 1, but > >> have just started to use Maven 2. If I need to provide more info, please > >> tell me. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Rune > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Stephen Duncan Jr > > www.stephenduncanjr.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Stephen Duncan Jr www.stephenduncanjr.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
