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

maven 3.0.4:

I still get these messages when making a single jar or combined sources for distribution. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-129 seems to be not in maven.

My workaround is to use various exclude patterns, and in particular, %regex[..] for folders. I don't know how stable or general this is, and clearly it needs to be maintained. However, we are in the situation where we get so many messages we can't see when a real message appears we need to do something about.

Skipping the NOTICE, LICENSE -- I put the correct merged text versions in later in the assembly. The partial ones from the dependencies aren't good enough anyway.

Matching the folder name excludes everything, not the folder itself. Folders do appear in the output, and no INFO level "skipping" messages.

  
    **/NOTICE*
    **/LICENSE*
    **/DEPENDENCIES*
    META-INF/**
    
    %regex[.*/]