diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f4e36c4e312..97ae7b9103e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HADOOP-8924. Add maven plugin alternative to shell script to save
     package-info.java. (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-9245. mvn clean without running mvn install before fails.
+    (Karthik Kambatla via suresh)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8419. Fixed GzipCode NPE reset for IBM JDK. (Yu Li via eyang)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 10898fde73c..23798da256d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>version-info</id>
+            <phase>compile</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>version-info</goal>
             </goals>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
index 7b91597754e..df174c59b4a 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <id>version-info</id>
+            <phase>compile</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>version-info</goal>
             </goals>