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Marius Dumitru Florea commented on MRELEASE-782: ------------------------------------------------ You can reproduce this issue with https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons by adding a {{properties}} section with any property to https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/blob/master/xwiki-commons-pom/pom.xml and running release:perform from repo root. > Properties defined in a child pom hide all the properties defined in the > parent pom while performing release:prepare > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MRELEASE-782 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-782 > Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Components: prepare > Affects Versions: 2.3.2 > Environment: Any > Reporter: Marius Dumitru Florea > > Suppose you have this two poms: > {code:title=Parent POM} > ... > <properties> > <my.version>1.6</my.version> > </properties> > ... > {code} > {code:title=Child POM} > ... > <!-- No properties defined here! --> > ... > <plugin> > ... > <dependencies> > <dependency> > ... > <version>${my.version}</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > </plugin> > ... > {code} > Running release:prepare on this works just fine. Now, if we add a > {{properties}} section with any property to the child pom we get: > {noformat} > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare (default-cli) on > project XYZ: The version could not be updated: ${my.version} -> [Help 1] > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute > goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare > (default-cli) on project XYZ: The version could not be updated: ${my.version} > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:213) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) > Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException: The version could > not be updated: ${commons.version} > at > org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:299) > at > org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.execute(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:247) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) > ... 19 more > Caused by: org.apache.maven.shared.release.ReleaseFailureException: The > version could not be updated: ${my.version} > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.rewriteArtifactVersions(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:578) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformDocument(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:298) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformProject(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:220) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transform(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:126) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.simulate(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:713) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:228) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:169) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:146) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:107) > at > org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:291) > ... 22 more > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. 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