Is it not possible to tell your users to edit the pom.xml (or provide
a profile.xml) such that the file:// reference is absolute rather than
relative? This seems to be the simplest way to do it.

Or provide a relative path in each pom perhaps, unsure if this would
work ie child/pom.xml <url>${basedir}/../repository</url>.

Wayne

On 10/27/06, Swenson, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to store some bootstrap artifacts (like third party jars) in
maven2 repository layout structure and deliver this repository with my
project's sources.  I'd like the top-level project pom to define this
repository such that all lower-level projects will attempt to retrieve
resources from this repository.  But I want to refer to the repository
with a relative path so that everything will work whether the project's
source tree is placed. So, for example, I'd like this kind of layout:



           pom.xml

           repository/

           module1/

           module2/



And I'd like module1 and module2 to find bootstrap artifacts in the
"repository" subdirectory of the top-level project.  If I define, in the
parent project's pom, something like:



 <repositories>

   <repository>

     <id>bootstrap</id>

     <name> Bootstrap Repoitory</name>

     <url>file://localhost/${basedir}/repository</url>

   </repository>

 </repositories>



Things won't work because ${basedir} is evaluated in the context of a
child module's pom, and will refer to the directory where that child
module's pom is located.  How can I define the file: URL such that it
will be valid in all sub-modules?



-- Eric




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