Hi I recently joined an existing project that uses the maven ant plug into to build artifacts that we need to distribute. I am trying to add support for deploy-file
$ mvn deploy:deploy-file -DskipTests 2>&1 | tee mvn.deploy-file.out [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.8:deploy-file (default-cli) on project mary-aide-dist: The parameters 'file' for goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.8:deploy-file are missing or invalid -> [Help 1] [ERROR] I have tried using -X and -e how ever I can still can not figure out what the problem is. any idea what I am doing wrong? thanks Andy <distributionManagement> … </> <properties> <mary-aide-proxy.tar>mary-aide-proxy-${project.version}</mary-aide-proxy.tar> <release.repositoryId>libs-release</release.repositoryId> <release.url>http://maryx01-c.bogco.com:8081/artifactory/libs-release-local/ </release.url> <snapshot.repositoryId>libs-snapshot</snapshot.repositoryId> <snapshot.url>http://maryx01-c.bigco.com:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/ </snapshot.url> </properties> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>mary-aide-proxy</id> <phase>deploy</phase> <goals> <goal>deploy-file</goal> </goals> <configuration> <file>target/${mary-aide-proxy.tar}.tar.gz</file> <repositoryId>${release.repositoryId}</repositoryId> <url>${release.url}</url> <groupId>${project.parent.groupId}</groupId> <artifactId>${project.parent.artifactId}</artifactId> <version>${project.parent.version}</version> <generatePom>false</generatePom> <packaging>tar.gz</packaging> </configuration> </execution> </executions>