I believe this is a Nexus issue as Nexus has a feature of downgrading the metadata file returned to Maven 2 clients. They *might* have overlooked the checksum impact of this. I think your best shot is to ask on the Nexus users list and/or open a issue ticket for Nexus.
/Anders On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:17, Matthew Buckett <matthew.buck...@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > The Sakai project (http://sakaiproject.org) is deploying it's > artifacts against the Sonatype OSS repository and while this works > fine for Maven 3 builds anyone attempting to download the artifacts > using Maven 2.2.1 gets checksum errors against the maven-metadata.xml. > > So far it seems that Maven 2.2.1 is not downloading the maven metadata > file directly but is somehow rebuilding the information in it (or > downloading it and stripping it). It's not easy to see if maven is > requesting the file as proxying https connection is hard. As the > metadata files are then different the checksums don't match. > > It seems that the sonatype repository has a metadata file that > contains information about the additional artifacts such as the > sources and javadocs. The metadata about these artifacts isn't > supported by maven 2 and was added for maven 3. However maven 2 was > updated to ignore this extra information. > > If I perform a build with maven 3 then the metadata gets updated > correctly and the checksums all match. After I've done a good build > with maven 3 performing another build which updated the snapshot > versions (-U switch) causes maven 2 to update the maven-meta to become > bad. Attached are the metadata that is in my local .m2 repo for maven > 2 and maven 3. > > -- > Matthew Buckett > VLE Developer, LTG, Oxford University Computing Services > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
