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I have a very simple project which I want to be packaged as a .rar. Now, I'm using the maven-rar-plugin, and that works perfectly locally. When I package, I get my .rar and it's what I want. However, I have a <distributionManagement> section like this:

<distributionManagement>
   <repository>
      <id>deployment</id>
      <name>Release Repo</name>
      <url>http:// mynexus.com: 8081/nexus/content/repo/release</url>
   </repository>
</distributionManagement>

Then when I run deploy -DperformRelease='true', I get a .jar published to my nexus. Then when I include this project as a dependency in another project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>MyProject</groupId>
    <artifactId>myProject</artifactId>
    <version>v1</version>
    <type>rar</type>
</dependency>

It goes to mynexus and tries to download it but can't find it. When I browse nexus, the project is there in the releases dir, but it's a .jar in there and maven dependency fails saying the .rar isn't there

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  • I've rarely seen this out in the wild - why would you do that?
    – gtonic
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 17:29
  • First can you show your full pom file?
    – khmarbaise
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 18:35
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    @gtonic, I wanted to use someone else's .rar, but their MANIFEST.MF did not include all of the dependencies I needed. So I extracted their .rar, created a project from it, adding the dependencies I needed. But I wanted the end result to be tracked / provided by my nexus, that's why I wanted publish as .rar because my dependent project includes / deploys the .rar it gets from mynexus.
    – DDoomUs
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 14:03
  • @DDoomUs: cool repackaging.
    – gtonic
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 14:45

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In the pom.xml, add the

<packaging>rar</packaging>

element as a child of the <project> element.

This published as a .rar as desired.

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