Document multi-module configuration with suppression file

Author: sworisbreathingCreated Jan 18, 2019Updated May 31, 2026
Labelsdocumentationmaven

I had the same issue as reported in #711. I tried @jeremylong's suggestion of following the approach recommended by maven-checkstyle-plugin. It worked for mvn verify but failed on mvn -B dependency-check:update-only

[ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'dependency-check' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/path/to/user/dir/.m2/repository), central (https://repo1.maven.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1]

It'd be awesome if the proper approach for handling multi-module configuration with a suppression file was documented on the usage page.

Source: dependency-check/DependencyCheck