Given a company-pom and project structure:

   child (inherits from company-pom)
     +-- child2 (inherits from child)

When I run mvn install in child, with company-pom configuration as in documentation, it fails with

[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4:enforce (enforce-distribution) @ child2 ---
[DEBUG] Configuring mojo org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4:enforce from plugin realm ClassRealm[plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4, parent: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@20e90906]
[DEBUG] Configuring mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4:enforce' with basic configurator -->
[DEBUG]   (s) fail = true
[DEBUG]   (s) failFast = false
[DEBUG]   (f) ignoreCache = false
[DEBUG]   (f) mojoExecution = org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4:enforce {execution: enforce-distribution}
[DEBUG]   (s) project = MavenProject: com.acme.maven:child2:1-SNAPSHOT @ /home/egnyte/maven-enforcer-aggregator-failure/child/child2/pom.xml
[DEBUG]   (s) rules = [org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BanDistributionManagement@404fcf62]
[DEBUG]   (s) session = org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession@319117be
[DEBUG]   (s) skip = false
[DEBUG] -- end configuration --
[DEBUG] Executing rule: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BanDistributionManagement
[DEBUG] distributionManagement: org.apache.maven.model.DistributionManagement@37b84bea
[DEBUG] Adding failure due to exception
org.apache.maven.enforcer.rule.api.EnforcerRuleException: You have defined a repository in distributionManagement.
        at org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.utils.DistributionManagementCheck.execute(DistributionManagementCheck.java:46)
        at org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BanDistributionManagement.execute(BanDistributionManagement.java:87)
        at org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.EnforceMojo.execute(EnforceMojo.java:150)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:133)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:108)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:76)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:116)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:361)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:155)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:584)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:213)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:157)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
[WARNING] Rule 0: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BanDistributionManagement failed with message:
You have defined a repository in distributionManagement.

Whatever I do this rule seems to fail in a first child of a multi-module project.

Tried:

• making child a module of company-pom (and running mvn install from company-pom directory)

• explicitly setting ignoreParent to true and false

• direct-child mvn install is passing OK