Failure to locate component descriptors in another project

The maven-assembly-plugin seems to search for component descriptors in the current project instead of in the one containing the assembly descriptors which do the referring. This behavior is probably a bug and makes it quite impossible to use such a modularized assembly descriptor from a different project.

The attached multi-module project exemplifies this; just run "mvn install" from the aggregator project and you will get the following stack trace:

org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.2-beta-5:single (default) on project problematic-module: Error reading assemblies: Failed to locate component descriptor: src/main/resources/assemblies/component.xml
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:141)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:77)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:69)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:82)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:54)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.singleThreadedBuild(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:218)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:190)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:246)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:95)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:430)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:160)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:124)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error reading assemblies: Failed to locate component descriptor: src/main/resources/assemblies/component.xml
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.mojos.AbstractAssemblyMojo.execute(AbstractAssemblyMojo.java:356)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:133)
... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.AssemblyReadException: Failed to locate component descriptor: src/main/resources/assemblies/component.xml
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.mergeComponentsWithMainAssembly(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:452)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.readAssembly(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:366)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.addAssemblyForDescriptorReference(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:257)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.readAssemblies(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:149)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.mojos.AbstractAssemblyMojo.execute(AbstractAssemblyMojo.java:352)
... 21 more
[ERROR]