How do I suppress maven assembly plugin skipping files that are already added? Or allow overwrite?

Question

For weeks, I've been wrestling with maven, getting it to deploy our project "properly."

I'm almost done but I have one stubborn little problem:

When I use the maven assembly plugin with the "directory" goal as in

mvn assembly:directory

I get LOTS of console output like the following:

[INFO] tomcat/conf already added, skipping
 [INFO] tomcat/conf/Catalina already added, skipping
 [INFO] tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost already added, skipping
 [INFO] tomcat/webapps already added, skipping


I've written my own assembly descriptor that basically copies several FileSets into various sub-directories within our deploy directory. Messages like the ones above appear whenever a file from one FileSet is being copied to a location in which another FileSet has already created the basic directory structure (and some "default" files that can be overwritten).

So, I'm having a hard time figuring out:

How do I either 1) Suppress these messages (but only the "already added" messages) or 2) allow for overwrite?

Answer 1

The info messages are coming from the Plexus Archiver. There is an open bug report on this issue:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-129

Answer 2

The Plexus bug mentioned by vocaro has been fixed. Using the maven-assembly-plugin with version 2.4 (highest at time of writing) does not print the verbose messages.