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Joerg Schaible commented on MNG-5127:
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It's closed, because it behaves as designed. Profiles are always valid in the
scope of the POM they are defined in, they are not inherited. The help plugin
does unfortunately only show active profiles of the *current* POM, but not the
ones of the parent. You have to repeat the activation for he current POM,
otherwise the profile will not be active.
> CLONE - Maven profile activation does not work when profile is defined in
> inherited 'parent' pom
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-5127
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5127
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Gilles Scokart
> Assignee: John Casey
>
> The goal is to activate a maven profile based on OS user name.
> When I create a standalone project with a profile activation, it works,
> however, when I define the profile in a "parent" pom, it is never activated.
> this works:
> ...
> <profile>
> <id>TONY</id>
> <activation>
> <property>
> <name>user.name</name>
> <value>WINTONY</value>
> </property>
> </activation>
> <properties>
> </properties>
>
> So in this case, my profile is activated based on my OS user name
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'help'.
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building Proj1
> [INFO] task-segment: [help:active-profiles] (aggregator-style)
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] [help:active-profiles]
> [INFO]
> Active Profiles for Project 'com.capgemini.be.proj1:parent:pom:4.0.2':
> The following profiles are active:
> - TONY (source: pom)
> ------------------
> However, if I now have the profiles definition in the "parent" pom, it
> doesn't work when I build a child project
> So the child project references the parent pom containing the profiles and
> the activation, but when it is built,
> the profile is not activated
> PARENT POM:
> ...
> <profiles>
> <profile>
> <id>TONY</id>
> <activation>
> <property>
> <name>user.name</name>
> <value>WINTONY</value>
> </property>
> </activation>
> <properties>
> ...
> CHILD POM (the one being built)
> <project>
> <parent>
> <groupId>com.capgemini.be.proj1</groupId>
> <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
> <version>4.0.2</version>
> </parent>
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'help'.
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building Proj1 Application
> [INFO] task-segment: [help:active-profiles] (aggregator-style)
> [INFO]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] [help:active-profiles]
> [INFO]
> Active Profiles for Project 'com.capgemini.be.proj1:proj1-webapp:jar:4.0.2':
> There are no active profiles.
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