Thanks for the quick update will do that.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> This change was by design in 2.1. You should be overriding the version in
> the child by specifying the dependencyManagement section again.
>
> - Brett
>
>
> On 08/04/2009, at 7:09 PM, Ben Storey wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> We ran into a problem I thought I would make you aware of one of my
>> colleagues was running maven 2.1 and we were all running maven 2.0.9
>>
>> When deploying with version 2.1.0 and you have properties setup like the
>> following in the root project.
>>
>> <prroperties>
>>
>> <commons-logging.version>1.1</commons-logging.version>
>>
>> </properties>
>>
>> …
>>
>> <dependencyManagement>
>>
>> <dependencies>
>>
>> <dependency>
>>
>> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
>>
>> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
>>
>> <version>${commons-logging.version} </groupId>
>>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> </dependencies>
>>
>> </dependencyManagement>
>>
>>
>>
>> When you do the deploy with 2.0.9 it deploys like above, however when
>> deploying in 2.1. it substitutes the dependencyManagement version property
>> like below.
>>
>>
>>
>> <dependencyManagement>
>>
>> <dependencies>
>>
>> <dependency>
>>
>> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
>>
>> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
>>
>> <version>1.1</groupId>
>>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> </dependencies>
>>
>> </dependencyManagement>
>>
>>
>>
>> This means in the child projects we cannot override the version by the
>> following:
>>
>>
>>
>> <properties>
>>
>> <commons-logging.version>1.1.1<commons-logging.version>
>>
>> </properties>
>>
>>
>> Because maven does not do the substitution because there is no variable to
>> substitute in the root descriptor.
>>
>> With the way we are using maven currently the dependencyManagement
>> elements
>> we want to be able to override some of our own library versions.
>>
>> Is this an enhancement or a bug?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
>
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