[MSITE-471] ${project.distributionManagement.site.url} can't use ${property} values in multi module projects

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: inheritance, site:deploy
• Assignee: Lukas Theussl
• Reporter: Andrew Hughes
• Created: 18/Apr/10 21:27
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:15
• Resolved: 20/Dec/10 08:44

Description

I wanted to use the site:stage-deploy goal. In order to use this I needed to provide a ${project.distributionManagement.site.url}. Which, first I think it wrong, since I provide my own 'stagingSiteURL' the ${project.distributionManagement.site.*} will not be used.

Because we don't actually have a scp, ftp, svn... location to deploy to I tried to substitute a ${project.distributionManagement.site.url} that I knew every maven user would have. Since they have ~/.m2/repository I tried using...
<url>file://${settings.localRepository}/../sites/${project.groupId}</url>

But when this is used with a multi module project, and with a 'stagingSiteURL' some very strange url's are built when trying to stage-deploy. This means the modules never deploy.

There's a few things going on here. My workaround means I just have to have ${project.distributionManagement.site.url}=='<url>not-used</url>'.