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

Question

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 th

Answer 1

1. Upgrade to Maven 3.1.x or higher - see http://maven.apache.org/maven-logging.html

   The standard Maven distribution, from Maven 3.1.0 onward, uses the SLF4J API for logging combined with the SLF4J Simple implementation.

2. Now with simplelogger we have fine-grained control over log messages. To identify which logger is causing the unwanted messages, edit MAVEN_HOME/conf/logging/simplelogger.properties and change the following:

   org.slf4j.simpleLogger.showLogName=true

3. Observe the unwanted garbage in your build output:

   [INFO] org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.jar.JarArchiver - META-INF/MANIFEST.MF already added, skipping
   

4. Back in simplelogger.properties, reduce logging level for the offending logger(s) by class name (also set showLogName back to false)

   org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.jar.JarArchiver=warn