Build a patched version of Liquibase 4.8.0

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We are running into some issues attempting to patch liquibase 4.8.0 and publish it to our local artifactory instance. The steps we used to build and publish the patched version are:

  1. Updated the version in the following pom.xml files from “0-SNAPSHOT” to “4.8.0-XYZ.0.0.1”

liquibase-cdi/pom.xml
liquibase-cli/pom.xml
liquibase-core/pom.xml
liquibase-dist/pom.xml
liquibase-extension-examples/pom.xml
liquibase-extension-testing/pom.xml
liquibase-integration-tests/pom.xml
liquibase-maven-plugin/pom.xml

  1. Updated file source in liquibase-dist/src/main/assembly/assembly-bin.xml from <source>${project.build.directory}/liquibase-0-SNAPSHOT.jar</source> to <source>${project.build.directory}/liquibase-4.8.0-XYZ.0.0.1.jar</source>

  2. Updated the configuration section for the maven-deploy-plugin in pom.xml from skip=true to skip=false.

  3. Remove the execution section below for the maven-deploy-plugin in pom.xml to enable the deploy task

         <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.8.2</version>
         <configuration>
             <skip>false</skip>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
             <execution>
                 <id>default-deploy</id>
                 <phase>none</phase>
             </execution>
         </executions>
     </plugin>

  4. Add the required distributionManagement section.

  5. ./mvnw --debug --settings ${WORKSPACE}/settings.xml clean package deploy

Using these steps we see the patched version of the liquibase artifacts are published to our artifactory instance. However, when we attempt to add a dependency on the patched version of the liquibase-core to our project we see the following error.

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ‘:dependency’.
Could not resolve org.liquibase:liquibase-core:4.8.0-XYZ.0.0.1.
Required by:
project :
Could not resolve org.liquibase:liquibase-core:4.8.0-XYZ.0.0.1.
inconsistent module metadata found. Descriptor: org.liquibase:liquibase-dist:4.8.0-XYZ.0.0.1 Errors: bad module name: expected=‘liquibase-core’ found=‘liquibase-dist’

Any help resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Also if the steps we are using to build and release a patched version of liquibase are not correct, could you provide the correct steps?

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I would have thought that just replacing any 0-SNAPSHOT strings with the version you want would work. The “liquibase-dist” module name error, though, is pointing something around how it’s being built being a bit off.

We have the liquibase-core and liquibase-dist submodules. In reality, “liquibase-dist” is what gets distributed via maven as “liquibase-core”. It’s like that for historical/refactoring reasons and and we’re planning on sorting that out soon, but for now it’s a bit confusing. In 4.8.0, the liquibase-dist/target jar is called liquibase.jar but that jar is the one you want to distribute in artifactory as “liquibase-core”.

That jar should have that as the artifactId in the embedded pom file, so if it’s complaining about liquibase-dist I’m wondering if you’re deployign with the wrong pom? The one in the jar is probably the best bet for you to use.

Nathan

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