[MCHECKSTYLE-327] Upgrading from 2.15 to 2.17 will fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.17
• Assignee: Guillaume Boué
• Reporter: Karl Heinz Marbaise
• Created: 18/Jul/16 19:26
• Updated: 18/Dec/16 10:04
• Resolved: 18/Dec/16 10:04

Description

If I try to upgrade the maven-checkstyle-plugin in the MCHECKSTYLE-326 issue by using a pluginManagement block and defining the new version via:

~/apache-maven/maven-shared/maven-shared-utils$ svn di
Index: pom.xml
===================================================================
--- pom.xml	(revision 1753303)
+++ pom.xml	(working copy)
@@ -120,6 +120,15 @@
   </dependencies>

   <build>
+    <pluginManagement>
+      <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>2.17</version>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
+    </pluginManagement>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

It will fail with the following:

[INFO] --- maven-site-plugin:3.5.1:attach-descriptor (attach-descriptor) @ maven-shared-utils ---
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-checkstyle-plugin:2.17:check (checkstyle-check) @ maven-shared-utils ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8.548 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-07-18T21:25:37+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 31M/444M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:2.17:check (checkstyle-check) on project maven-shared-utils: Failed during checkstyle execution: Unable to find configuration file at location: config/maven_checks.xml: Could not find resource 'config/maven_checks.xml'. -> [Help 1]

Issue Links

• is related to: MCHECKSTYLE-326 Running mvn install works first time second it does not
• is related to: MPOM-152 Upgrade maven-checkstyle-plugin to 2.17.