Nexus rejects things it doesn't like. The file system doesn't reject anything.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:56 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 October 2010 21:13, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Could we please have a private-to-asf 'release' repository on >> repositories.apache.org that could be used for full dry runs? I've >> spend a fair amount of time debugging poms for release issues, and I'd >> like to be able to run the process all the way through to release >> without 'releasing' anything or even showing up in the staging repo. >> > > The deploy target can easily be overridden by defining the > altDeploymentRepository property. > For example, the following will deploy to the local directory target/deploy: > > mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=id::default::file:target/deploy > > would that solve the problem? > > If so, you can set up a profile to make it easier: > > <profile> > <id>test-deploy</id> > <properties> > > <altDeploymentRepository>id::default::file:target/deploy</altDeploymentRepository> > </properties> > </profile> > > mvn deploy -Ptest-deploy >