[MINSTALL-29] Can't use maven-install-plugin with <goal>install-file</goal> in POM

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Environment: WinXP, running M2 in Cygwin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brad Harper
• Created: 14/Jul/06 10:06
• Updated: 02/May/07 20:24
• Resolved: 02/May/07 20:24

Description

This issue is related to another I submitted recently. In fact, the earlier issue was encounted
in an earlier attempt to get the same results. (see bottom, below.)

Consider the POM descriptor containing

<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>snapshots</id>
<url>http://svn.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-library</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>com.epsiia.dxr.third-party</groupId>
<artifactId>dxr-third-party-WINDOWS-X86-com-emc-centera-fplibrary-lib</artifactId>
<version>2.0SP1</version>
<packaging>lib</packaging>
<file>FPLibrary.lib</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

M2 fails to build in this project because all </configuration> elements are read-only. [I'm attempting
to use the 2.2-SNAPSHOT because I get the same error in stable versions. ]

Shouldn't this execution be allowable and equivalent to the CLI invocation

% mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.epsiia.dxr.third-party ..

I'm trying to create a mind-numbingly simple environment, so that other less-experienced developers
aren't required to know which of the third-party libraries need to be manually installed via once-only
occurances should the local repository need to be re-constructed.