diff --git a/src/main/assembly/bin-with-deps.xml b/src/main/assembly/bin-with-deps.xml
index de80d3a0a..2b66f2281 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/bin-with-deps.xml
+++ b/src/main/assembly/bin-with-deps.xml
@@ -39,16 +39,18 @@
             <exclude>org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient-osgi</exclude>
           </excludes>
           <binaries>
-            <includeDependencies>true</includeDependencies>
-            <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
+            <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
             <unpack>false</unpack>
+            <dependencySets>
+                <dependencySet/>
+            </dependencySets>
           </binaries>
         </moduleSet>
     </moduleSets>
     <fileSets>
         <fileSet>
           <directory></directory>
-          <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+          <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
           <includes>
             <include>README.txt</include>
             <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/bin.xml b/src/main/assembly/bin.xml
index 82f4e1098..6125d29af 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/bin.xml
+++ b/src/main/assembly/bin.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
           </excludes>
           <binaries>
             <includeDependencies>false</includeDependencies>
-            <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
+            <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
             <unpack>false</unpack>
           </binaries>
         </moduleSet>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     <fileSets>
         <fileSet>
           <directory></directory>
-          <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+          <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
           <includes>
             <include>README.txt</include>
             <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/osgi-bin.xml b/src/main/assembly/osgi-bin.xml
index 655d72667..9ff0f8ca9 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/osgi-bin.xml
+++ b/src/main/assembly/osgi-bin.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     <fileSets>
         <fileSet>
           <directory>httpclient-osgi/target</directory>
-          <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+          <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
           <includes>
             <include>*.jar</include>
           </includes>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         </fileSet>
         <fileSet>
           <directory></directory>
-          <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+          <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
           <includes>
             <include>README.txt</include>
             <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/src.xml b/src/main/assembly/src.xml
index 3f949b7da..db450cbcb 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/src.xml
+++ b/src/main/assembly/src.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         <!-- Release materials -->
         <fileSet>
           <directory></directory>
-          <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+          <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
           <excludes>
             <exclude>**/.*</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.*/**</exclude>