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Phil Rice
Phil Rice

Reputation: 151

Izpack under Maven using wrong 'installFile'

I am using Maven to build an installer using IzPack. As far as I can see (relevant part of POM included below), I am asking for the install file to be ${basedir}/izpack/release.xml.

In practice (when using -e on maven) I get the following debug:

The important point is that the install file is is ../src/main. I don't actually have a src/main in this project, so it looks like I am picking up a default by mistake.

The page http://izpack.codehaus.org/izpack-maven-plugin/izpack-mojo.html, describes the properties, and as far as I can see descriptor is the correct one to use. I get 'unrecognised tag' if I move descriptor outside the configuration block, so I suspect that it is in the correct place but being ignored.

I have moved the release.xml to the file locations specified by the [debug] and to my surprise the installer did it's thing, so I think the rest of the configuration is specificed correctly. I do however have multiple separate installers I want to create, and I would like to be able to control the descriptor.

Software stack

Maven POM org.codehaus.izpack izpack-maven-plugin 5.0.0-beta10

        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>build-izpack-release-installer</id>
                <phase>package</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>izpack</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptor>${basedir}/izpack/release.xml</descriptor>
                    <izpackBasedir>${staging.dir}</izpackBasedir>
                    <kind>release</kind>
                </configuration>
            </execution>
        </executions>

    </plugin>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (1)

Phil Rice
Phil Rice

Reputation: 151

OK after some investigation I have come to the conclusion that (surprise) the documentation is wrong. The correct tag to use is <installFile>

Upvotes: 1

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