Deploying assembly package with maven-release-plugin

Question

We use Hudson and the maven-release-plugin to do the release builds. Now I have a project which contains an assembly that puts together all needed components and then packag

Answer 1

Meanwhile, I found 2 ways of doing what I wanted.

The maven-build-helper-plugin allows to add additional entries to the list of artifacts that should be deployed:

    
         org.codehaus.mojo
         build-helper-maven-plugin
         1.3
         
           
             attach-distribution
             package
             
               attach-artifact
             
             
               
                 
                   target/${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}.tar.gz
                   tar.gz
                 
               
             
           
         
       

The other is as simple as it gets and someone on the maven-user mailinglist pointed this out. Simple use the assembly:single goal instead of asssembly:assembly. This way the generated artifact is uploaded to the repository during the deploy phase.

    
        dist-assembly
        package
        
            single