[MRELEASE-614] releaseProfiles works only if at least one (default) profile is activated in the same pom.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: perform
• Environment: WindowsXP, Maven-2.2.1
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Torsten Reinhard
• Created: 17/Nov/10 07:13
• Updated: 04/Dec/12 15:54
• Resolved: 04/Dec/12 15:54

Description

related to MRELEASE-459 I decided to define an empty "dummy" profile, which is activated by default instead of passing -P... at the command line at mvn release:perform.

I´ve put this into our company parent pom.xml, next to the release profile that might be enabled during mvn release:perform:

<profiles>
	<!-- default profile is needed, because otherwise mvn release:perform will not activate the release profile -->
	<!-- see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-459 for details-->
	<profile>			
		<id>dummy</id>
		<activation>
			<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
		</activation>
	</profile>
		
	<profile>			
		<id>release</id>
		<properties>
			<!-- could be used at mvn release:perform -->
			<!-- will set productVersion to the current (released)project.scm.tag -->
			<productVersion>${project.scm.tag}</productVersion>		
		</properties>
	</profile>

Than, in one child module I configured the maven-release-plugin as:

	<configuration>
		<workingDirectory>c:\LocalViewsRelease\${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</workingDirectory>
		<preparationGoals>clean install</preparationGoals>
		<releaseProfiles>release</releaseProfiles>
	</configuration>	

=> this should activate the dummy profile (which is activated by default) and the release profile - but it does NOT !

[DEBUG] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "C:\eap\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin\mvn.bat -X -D maven.repo.local=D:\mavenrepo -D performRelease=true deploy site-deploy"

I could only get this to work copying the dummy profile again into the child pom.xml.

[DEBUG] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "C:\eap\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin\mvn.bat -X -D maven.repo.local=D:\mavenrepo -D performRelease=true -P dummy,release deploy site-deploy"

The fix should:

• fix MRELEASE-459 first, so no more default profile is needed to get releaseProfiles to work
• fix the inheritance of (default) profiles during mvn release:perform