How do I surpress maven assembly plugin skipping files that are already added? Or allow overwrite?

Hello,

For weeks, I've been wrestling with maven, getting it to deploy our project "properly."

I'm almost done but I have one stubborn little problem:

When I use the maven assembly plugin with the "directory" goal as in

mvn assembly:directory

I get LOTS of console output like the following:

[INFO] tomcat/conf already added, skipping [INFO] tomcat/conf/Catalina already added, skipping [INFO] tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost already added, skipping [INFO] tomcat/webapps already added, skipping

I've written my own assembly descriptor that basically copies several FileSets into various sub-directories within our deploy directory. Messages like the ones above appear whenever a file from one FileSet is being copied to a location in which another FileSet has already created the basic directory structure (and some "default" files that can be overwritten).

So, I'm having a hard time figuring out:

How do I either 1) Suppress these messages (but only the "already added" messages) or 2) allow for overwrite?

Thanks for you response. The maven-dependency-plugin does not seem to be a good fit for my needs. In fact, I tried it a few weeks ago and, after digging in, I found that it's more geared toward copying artifacts (such as JUnit) than file sets. It seems the assembly:directory goal is the better choice for moving (assembling) sets of files into an output directory. From what I gather, the assembly plugin is for when you want to group things together in one place, typically for zipping. Right now, my only problem is I can't figure out how to suppress/avoid the "already added" messages.

gmale 2010-04-09 19:10:44

Hm..the maven-dependency-plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-mojo.html) seemed to be exactly what you need (it has overwrite options etc.)..copy artifacts (files) to a particular location...May be it would be a good idea to take a look at the maven-cargo-plugin (http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+plugin), cause it can start/stop/deploy to tomcat etc. BTW: Which version of the assembly-plugin do you use? May be update to newest..

khmarbaise 2010-04-14 13:43:48

This doesn't exactly solve my problem but I will accept your answer since I have no others. It's the thought that counts, right? lol

gmale 2010-07-02 17:36:23

@gmale dont accept answers if they dont answer your question. I came in hopes to solve my problem. I am left disappointed :(

garbagecollector 2010-09-23 15:30:26

@garbagecollector: sorry for your inconvenience. But the question went unanswered for 3 months. No one else even made an attempt. I feel it's only fair to give the guy credit for trying. After all, the answer "I accept" and "the correct answer" aren't necessarily the same thing. As a counter example, someone might correctly answer my question in an offensive way. It would be "the correct answer" but it wouldn't be the one I'd accept.

gmale 2010-09-23 15:45:25

@gmale I disagree completely. a question is asked, the correct answer is the one that helped the user the most in solving the problem. If no one has looked at it for 3 months, put a bounty on it.

garbagecollector 2010-09-23 18:50:06

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