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Guo Du commented on MNG-5146:
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It would be nice we have a keywords to ignore the warning message because some
times you do want to point parent to another pom.xml which is not in your
source code structure.
> parent.relativePath Warning is very misleading
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>
> Key: MNG-5146
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5146
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Errors
> Environment: Maven 3.0.3
> Reporter: Scott MacDonald
> Priority: Minor
>
> When a parent pom.xml is located in a sibling directory as the children, and
> <relativePath> is not set in the <parent> element of the children, maven
> spits out a completely bogus, very misleading, warning message.
> For example, suppose com.fubar and com.parent are in sibling directories
> (along with a bunch of other modules), and com.fubar specifies com.parent as
> its parent, but does snot specify a parent.relativePath in it parent element.
> When you run a build, you get the following...
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [WARNING]
> [WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model
> for com.fubar:jar:1234.5
> [WARNING] 'parent.relativePath' points at com.someRandomModule instead of
> com.parent, please verify your project structure @ line
> 10, column 11
> [WARNING]
> [WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they
> threaten the stability of your build.
> [WARNING]
> [WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support
> building such malformed projects.
> [WARNING]
> The warning incorrectly states that the child pom has specified
> com.someRandomModule (a completely unrelated module) as its parent when that
> is completely not the case. The unlreated module, in this case, happens to be
> an existing module in a differrnt sibling directory, but otherwise has no
> relation whatsoever to the parent or child.
> It would be much better to warn about the actual problem....
> The actual problem is that maven first tries to resolve parent poms locally
> based on the value of relativePath in the parent element of the child. IF it
> does not find it there, it will then resolve the parent from the repos. The
> current default value of relativepath is ../pom.xml (which in my case
> doesn;t work because my parent is in a sibling directory)
> The warning should be changed to something useful, such as....
> [WARNING] Could not resolve parent pom locally using parent.relativePath
> value of ../pom.xml. Parent pom will be resolved from local or remote
> repository. To disable local parent pom resolution, specify
> <relativePath><relativePath> in you <parent> element.
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