assembly manifest entries

[starksm64]

Why doesn't the assembly plugin support the same manifest configuration as the jar plugin? The docs for the assembly plugin refer to the jar plugin for manfiest info, but the following does not work:

 <plugin>

 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

 <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>

 <version>2.1</version>

 <executions>

 <execution>

 <phase>package</phase>

 <goals>

 <goal>attached</goal>

 </goals>

 </execution>

 </executions>

 <configuration>
 <archive>
 <manifest>
 <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
 <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
 </manifest>
 </archive>
 <descriptors>

 <descriptor>assembly/bin.xml</descriptor>

 <descriptor>assembly/sources.xml</descriptor>

 </descriptors>

 </configuration>

 <inherited>false</inherited>

 </plugin>

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to configure plugin parameters for: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.1



Cause: Cannot find setter nor field in org.apache.maven.archiver.ManifestConfiguration for 'addDefaultSpecificationEntries'
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Dec 15 08:45:45 PST 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 21M/293M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[starksm@succubus security-jboss-sx]$

why doesn't this work?

[pgier]

It is supposed to work that way, but it's a bug in the current version. It's fixed in the current snapshot (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-121).
If you want, I can copy the source and set up our own copy of the assembly plugin until the fix is released.

[pgier]

Oops, here's a not broken link:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-121[/url]

[pgier]

Ok, just copy and paste the url, because I can't seem to forum post correctly tonight :(

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-121

[starksm64]

We need to update it locally because trying to add explicit manifest entries also does not work.