Adding a maven (distribution) repository on the command line - maven

Question

I think this should be possible, but I have not found anything related to it, as all I have found relates to dependency repositories.
What I would like to do is define the repository where maven (deploy, or release plugin for example) pushes the artifacts. How can I define it on the command line? I assume it is -Dsomething
UPDATE: When I read a jenkins error output carefully, it hints about using:
-DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url
What Is the format for using this? What is the layout parameter?

Answer 1

The simplest thing is to read the documentation about the maven-deploy-plugin which describes the format:
mvn -DaltDeploymentRepository=repositoryId::default::http://WhatEverURL
In the distributionManagement you usually give things like:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>internal.repo</id>
<name>MyCo Internal Repository</name>
<url>Host to Company Repository</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
If you like to use a different URL in this case you need to give:
mvn -DaltDeploymentRepository=internal.repo::default::http://WhatEverURL
The default in this case is the default for the maven repository layout.

Answer 2

In your pom.xml you should add distributionManagement configuration to where to deploy.
In the following example I have used file system as the locations.
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
.........
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>internal.repo</id>
<name>Internal repo</name>
<url>file:///home/thara/testesb/in</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
............
</project>
The same thing can be done by following command:
mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=internal.repo::default::file:///home/thara/testesb/in