What does this mean: Not a v4.0.0 POM. for project org.codehaus.mojo:rpm-maven-plugin

Question

I\'m afraid I just don\'t know what this error means, besides that there is an error. I was able to build jars before, but this is my first time using the rpm-maven-plugin.

Answer 1

I found that I was missing the ~/.m2/settings.xml file. Once I got that file, I was able to use maven just fine.

Answer 2

The answer to this may be 2 fold:

1. There's a problem with the POM
2. You are running the wrong version of maven

Fix the POM or fix your Maven version.

Answer 3

The problem was exactly as the error stated. I went to my respository and opened the POM file at the path above. I realize that somehow the POM file was downloaded while I was not authenticated against one of our internal systems.

So even though a file existed, the pom file only contained an error message.

After deleting the file at the path and restarting the build, the build was successful.