Maven release:perform without deploy and calling an external shell script

Question

I am using the maven release plugin. Problem is simple: I don\'t want to do a deploy on release:perform. I actually want to execute a shell script that will do the deploy for me

Answer 1

I am using the maven release plugin. Problem is simple: I don't want to do a deploy on release:perform. I actually want to execute a shell script that will do the deploy for me.

I must be missing something because when I read this, I don't see the point of the script... But let's just say I don't get it.

Somehow disable the default "deploy" goal from release:perform

According to the documentation of release:perform, you can use the optional goals parameter to specify:

A space separated list of goals to execute on deployment. Default value is either deploy or deploy site-deploy, if the project has a <distributionManagement>/<site> element.

You could maybe use install instead of deploy.

Somehow make release:perform call the exec:exec plugin to execute a shell script

Bind it on install in a profile activated during release. Here is one way to do this:

<profile>
  <!-- Profile used when the release plugin executes. -->
  <id>release</id>
  <activation>
    <property>
      <!-- This property is automatically defined by the Maven release plugin when executing
           a release. Thus this profile will be automatically enabled when releasing -->
      <name>performRelease</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
  </activation>
  <build>
    ...
  </build>
</profile>

But honestly, there is something weird with your request. Maybe giving more details would help.

Answer 2

A little late, but for reference:

For your step 1, you can disable the maven deploy step by using the "skip" option. Click here for reference.

On the commandline you could call something like:

mvn release:perform -Darguments="-Dmaven.deploy.skip=true"