Configure your Nexus server to not allow artifacts to get overwritten. You can't stop the build from happening, but you can stop the artifact from being deployed.
> -----Original Message----- > From: baz themail [mailto:bazthem...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:55 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Is there any way to stop the same version of pom file/build > being built more than once? > > Wendy, thanks for your reply. > > Here is the example: > > 1. Someone need to fix a bug in production. > 2. Create a new branch for bug fix based on a label. > 3. The newly created branch will contain older pom files with older > version that already released in Nexus (or any Maven based > repository). > 4. Logically, once the branch is created from an older label, in order > to avoid redeploying the old version numbers, the version number > should be changed. > 5. Say, if #4 is skipped, then the same version number that exist in > Nexus will be overwritten after performing a release build. > 6. This is to assume that we should keep the old release version even > if it is buggy. > > So, my question is: Is there any way to skip #4 by having some Maven > type mechanism to check and stop a release build if the version > already exist in maven repo? > > Thanks. > > B. > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM, baz themail <bazthem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Is there any way to stop the same version of pom file/build being > >> built more than once? > > > > Being _built_? Probably not... anyone can check out a tag and > > re-build that version locally, nothing to prevent that from happening. > > (Nor should there be.) > > > > What's the real underlying problem? > > > > My guess is that it's about not overwriting released versions. In > > which case... are you using -SNAPSHOT version numbers and going > > through a release process? A repository manager to store your > > artifacts? > > > > Tell us more about your situation and most likely someone will have > > some advice for you. > > > > -- > > Wendy > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
