title: Maven: The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact
body: <p>I'm using Maven 3.0.3 on Mac 10.6.6.  I have a JAR project and when I run the command &quot;mvn clean install:install&quot;, I'm getting the error,</p>
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install (default-cli) on project StarTeamCollisionUtil: The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact -&gt; [Help 1]
  </code></pre>
  <p>What does this mean and how can I fix it?  Below is my pom.xml.  Let me know what other info would be helpful and I'll edit this post.  Thanks, - Dave</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;project xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&quot; xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
  xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
  &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;com.myco.starteam.util&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;StarTeamCollisionUtil&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  &lt;name&gt;StarTeam Collision Util&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  &lt;repositories&gt;
      &lt;repository&gt;
          &lt;id&gt;myco-sonatype-nexus-snapshots&lt;/id&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;MyCo Sonatype-Nexus Snapshots&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;url&gt;http://sonatype.myco.com/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/&lt;/url&gt;
      &lt;/repository&gt;
  &lt;/repositories&gt;
  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-surefire-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>