Hi-
I need to add an rpm packaging stage to my maven build. I looked
through the docs for the mvn rpm plugin, and I think it may be missing a
feature or two that I need. I have a few questions. I'm pretty new to
Maven, so sorry if some of my questions are a bit off the mark. Any help
would be appreciated.
1. Is there a capability to include a dynamically generated
filelist instead of hard-coding it in the POM? The rpm spec file format
allows this with "%files -f". Does the plugin have an analogous
function?
2. Is there a capability to dynamically change the release number
to a perforce changelist? I know there's a build number plugin. Can
these be used together?
3. If I must use exec instead of the rpm plugin, what would be the
appropriate phase to bind to? "package" really won't work for me,
because I just want that stage to produce jars. Is it hard to add a new
build cycle phase?
4. Can I create a target that's not bound to a particular phase and
invoke it directly? I've tried doing this with the exec plugin, but when
I invoke "mvn exec:exec", it seems to run once for every target.
Thanks-
Carter
