Created attachment 333988 [details] output of mvn archetype:create So, this is a weird one. I have a working (at least I think so) maven2 installation on my f9 notebook. As I wanted to build my projects on my f10 desktop, I encounter some _real_ weird problems, it seems like commandline parsing is somehow wrecked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [choeger@choeger5 maventest]$ rpm -qa | grep maven maven-shared-file-management-1.0-4.6.fc10.i386 maven-surefire-booter-1.5.3-2.8.fc10.i386 maven-wagon-1.0-0.1.a5.3.4.fc10.noarch maven2-manual-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven2-plugin-eclipse-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven-scm-1.0-0.2.b3.1.6.fc10.i386 maven2-plugin-surefire-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven2-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven-shared-plugin-testing-harness-1.0-4.6.fc10.i386 maven2-plugin-resources-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven-shared-1.0-4.6.fc10.i386 maven2-common-poms-1.0-4.4.fc10.noarch maven-doxia-1.0-0.2.a7.2.10.fc10.i386 maven-surefire-1.5.3-2.8.fc10.i386 maven2-plugin-surefire-report-2.0.4-10.15.fc10.i386 maven-jxr-1.0-2.8.fc10.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm -rf ~/.m2 2. mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=myApp Actual results: see attached log, basically you get: Invalid task 'artifactId=myApp': you must specify a valid lifecycle phase, or a goal in the format plugin:goal or pluginGroupId:pluginArtifactId:pluginVersion:goal Expected results: you should see a simple maven project Additional info: This problem also occurs on mvn install:install-file, note that install-plugin was even not discovered by mvn help:describe -Dplugin=install before copying .m2 from a sane installation.
The problem is with jakarta-commons-cli. I just requested an update for F10. In the mean time, you can try installing it from here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=90241 Feel free to re-open if the problem persists. The update should be hitting F10 stable soon.