[OOZIE-3306] Make it possible to override maven dependency plugin version number

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.1.0
• Component/s: build

Environment

Mac OS X

Java 8 u171

• Assignee: Andras Salamon
• Reporter: Andras Salamon
• Created: 17/Jul/18 14:10
• Updated: 18/Jan/19 09:02
• Resolved: 19/Jul/18 15:50

Description

I wanted to speed up unit testing using dist_test framework and grind frontend, and it does not work correctly with the hardwired maven dependency plugin version 3.0.2:

...
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.0.2:copy-dependencies (default-cli) on project oozie-fluent-job-api: Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[ERROR] [ERROR] 'distributionManagement.status' must not be specified. @ line 39, column 13: 1 problem was encountered while building the effective model for xml-apis:xml-apis-ext:1.3.04
[ERROR] [ERROR] 'distributionManagement.status' must not be specified. @ line 39, column 13
[ERROR] -> [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/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <goals> -rf :oozie-fluent-job-api
...

Downgrading to version 2.10 solves the problem but it requires manually modify the version number in pom.xml file:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.10</version>
</plugin>

It would be great to be able to customize the version number without modifying the pom.xml file.