[FALCON-1898] Build fails on assembly:assembly when using maven-assembly-plugin version 2.6

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: trunk
• Component/s: build-tools
• Assignee: Balu Vellanki
• Reporter: Balu Vellanki
• Created: 13/Apr/16 00:21
• Updated: 13/Apr/16 02:16
• Resolved: 13/Apr/16 02:16

Description

The failure occurs with following error. It seems that maven-assembly-plugin version 2.6 does not accept empty descriptor file

[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] Apache Falcon ...................................... FAILURE [01:32 min]
[INFO] Apache Falcon UI ................................... SUCCESS [  7.399 s]
[INFO] Build Tools ........................................ SUCCESS [  3.864 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Java client .......................... SUCCESS [ 22.370 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon CLI client ........................... SUCCESS [  7.857 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Metrics .............................. SUCCESS [  9.103 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Hadoop Dependencies .................. SUCCESS [ 10.523 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Test Utility ......................... SUCCESS [  8.338 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Commons .............................. SUCCESS [ 30.385 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Oozie EL Extension ................... SUCCESS [  9.639 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Embedded Hadoop - Test Cluster ....... SUCCESS [ 20.973 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Sharelib Hive - Test Cluster ......... SUCCESS [  1.703 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Sharelib Pig - Test Cluster .......... SUCCESS [  0.536 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Sharelib Hcatalog - Test Cluster ..... SUCCESS [  0.668 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Sharelib Oozie - Test Cluster ........ SUCCESS [  0.375 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Test Tools - Test Cluster ............ SUCCESS [  0.386 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Messaging ............................ SUCCESS [  8.354 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon extensions ........................... SUCCESS [  9.025 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon LIfecycle Module ..................... SUCCESS [ 11.191 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Oozie Adaptor ........................ SUCCESS [ 21.080 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Scheduler ............................ SUCCESS [ 16.260 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Acquisition .......................... SUCCESS [  0.764 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Distcp Replication ................... SUCCESS [  8.747 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Retention ............................ SUCCESS [  6.408 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Archival ............................. SUCCESS [  0.676 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Rerun ................................ SUCCESS [ 10.390 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Prism ................................ SUCCESS [ 40.677 s]
[INFO] falcon-unit ........................................ SUCCESS [ 12.133 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Web Application ...................... SUCCESS [ 34.321 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Documentation ........................ SUCCESS [ 14.903 s]
[INFO] Apache Falcon Distro ............................... SUCCESS [ 26.066 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 07:35 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-04-12T17:20:08-07:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 644M/945M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.6:assembly (default-cli) on project falcon-main: No formats specified in the execution parameters or the assembly descriptor. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException