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Basil James Whitehouse III commented on MASSEMBLY-464:
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Impossible is an exgaration. Not expected, yes; and difficult for Nexus and
other repo managers to index, yes
([NEXUS-3158|https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-3158]). A project can
still depend on one of these assemblies and it will download the zip from the
repo (even a Nexus repo) provided the type is defined.
I
[posted|http://old.nabble.com/Missing-search-results-with-assembly-attached-artifacts-td26581535ef34835.html#a26581535]
about this on the Nexus mailing list too.
Based on the examples from the above thread if you add this dependency:
{code:xml}
<dependency>
<groupId>com.example.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>zip-distribution-packaging-pom</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<type>zip</type>
</dependency>
{code}
The zip will be downloaded.
Also note that there's currently an option to [exclude the assemblyId from the
final
name|http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/single-mojo.html#appendAssemblyId]
which conflict with this issue.
The use case I have is to create a distribution bundle in a multi-module build.
There is a separate module to create this assembly and from an esthetic's
perspective it's redundant to add a classifier to the filename. If there were
a packaging type of 'zip' I'd use that instead and AFAIK that would be more
correct from a maven coordinates perspective and probably indexed correctly by
Nexus.
> assembly descriptor id should be mandatory
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MASSEMBLY-464
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-464
> Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-5
> Reporter: Juven Xu
>
> I can create assembly using descriptor like this:
> {code:xml}
> <assembly>
> <id></id>
> <formats>
> <format>zip</format>
> </formats>
> <fileSets>
> <fileSet>
> <directory>src/main/java</directory>
> </fileSet>
> </fileSets>
> </assembly>
> {code}
> the file created does not have a classifier, and it's not the main artifact
> either, so it's impossible to locate it using maven coordinates.
> the id should be mandatory so there will always a classifier.
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