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How to make sure the distribution file for maven project have name that doesn't relate to a certain version, instead always contain the latest

I'm currently working on a Maven project and I want to create a fat jar. when I'm doing a remote build, the name of the jar automatically gets transformed to some numbers, which I don't want since I would have to update my other project to use the latest JAR.

Currently my pom.xml has this:

<artifactId>myProject</artifactId>
<groupId>a.b.c.d</groupId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

When I do remote build, 1.0-SNAPSHOT gets transformed into 000-feature-7654321 (this number gets changed every time I make a new commit)

Due to this, the generated jar file looks like myProject-000-feature-7654321.jar but I want it to be something like myProject-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar which will always contain the latest changes.

Solution

  • This means that your remote build changes the version before or during the build.

    Look at the gitlab build script to figure out what happens there.