profile activation based on environment variables

[Haroon Rafique]

Hi,

I'm using maven 2.0.4 on a Gentoo Linux machine. Does anyone have 
experience in activating profiles based on environment variables? I figure 
using the env prefix would do the trick. So, far I have tried:

        <profile>
            <id>haroon-workstation</id>
            <activation>
                <property>
                    <name>env.BLAH</name>
                    <value>blah</value>
                </property>
            </activation>
            <properties>
                <user.install.root>/www/tomcat</user.install.root>
            </properties>
        </profile>

After setting:
        export BLAH=blah
and execuging:
        mvn help:active-profile
I still get:

[INFO] [help:active-profiles]
[INFO]
Active Profiles for Project 'ca.utoronto.sis:sws:war:1.0':

There are no active profiles.

On an aside, the only way I can activate that profile is to use !env.BLAH:

        <profile>
            <id>haroon-workstation</id>
            <activation>
                <property>
                    <name>!env.BLAH</name>
                </property>
            </activation>
            <properties>
                <user.install.root>/www/tomcat</user.install.root>
            </properties>
        </profile>

Is this a bug? Should I raise a jira issue?

What I'm eventually trying to do is to do some per host profile 
activation, so I was thinking of using env.HOSTNAME as the activation. Any 
ideas to do something similar?

Thanks,
--
Haroon Rafique
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