今天在对maven子项目进行maven操作时提示该错误，具体报错信息如下：
[ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[ERROR] Invalid packaging for parent POM com.eric:springcloud:1.0-SNAPSHOT (E:\idea-workspace\springcloud\pom.xml), must be "pom" but is "jar" @ com.eric:springcloud:1.0-SNAPSHOT, E:\idea-workspace\springcloud\pom.xml
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[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] The project com.eric:cloudclient:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT (E:\idea-workspace\springcloud\cloudclient\pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR] Invalid packaging for parent POM com.eric:springcloud:1.0-SNAPSHOT (E:\idea-workspace\springcloud\pom.xml), must be "pom" but is "jar" @ com.eric:springcloud:1.0-SNAPSHOT, E:\idea-workspace\springcloud\pom.xml
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
解决办法：很简单，在maven父工程的pom.xml文件的project节点下指定打包方式为pom即可：
<packaging>pom</packaging>