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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 17:00:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: Replacing a bunch of -Dkey=value pairs using external file
From: Dan Tran <dantran@gmail.com>
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Hi Barrie,

That would work.  On caveat, I have to instruct my user to edit their own
settings.xml.  Would be nice if I can just pass in -fp xxx from command line

Thanks

-Dan

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Barrie Treloar <baerrach@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 September 2015 at 08:14, Dan Tran <dantran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a scenario where I use a maven reactor multi-modules build to
> > orchestrate a vmware OVA build from scratch ( start with ISO, create
> > initial VM, apply additional provisioning, export to OVA, deploy, and
> test)
> >
> > The poms have properties which can be overridden  via -Dx=y to build on
> > non-default environment, but there  are too many to account for
> >
> > So far I found
> >
> >
> http://www.mojohaus.org/properties-maven-plugin/set-system-properties-mojo.html
> > but the initial experiment is not good.
> >
> > Perhaps, this feature must come from maven core? if so, is it a lot of
> > effort to add this feature? and how?
> >
> > is there a similar need like this from Maven community?
> >
> > Advice is greatly appreciated
> >
>
>  Put the properties into a profile in ~/.m2/settings.xml and then activate
> it via -P
> e.g.
>     <profile>
>         <id>ci</id>
>         <properties>
>             <rat.skip>true</rat.skip>
>         </properties>
>     </profile>
>
> mvn -Pci
>
> With the profile activate rat will now be skipped.
>

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