Hudson Perforce plugin - how can I automatically update versions without repeatedly triggering a build

I'm trying to get continuous integration working using Hudson, Maven & Perforce (with an scm poll used to trigger each build)

One of the requirements is to automatically update POM snapshot version numbers following each successful build.

This is trivial using the Maven release plugin, but the act of checking in the newly versioned POMs triggers another build - which continues ad infinitum.

Is there any way of checking in version updates without triggering another build? There doesn't seem to be any way of excluding specific user checkins, specific changelists, or specific files when the scm poll makes the decision to rebuild.

This seems like a basic requirement - been doing it for years using Cruise Control / Ant / Perforce,

Cheers,

Mark

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