It appears that I found the answer to my question by searching the mail archives. This support is huge for organizations using repository groups.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01381.html *Re: Nexus index for repository group* *Gwen Harold Autencio* Wed, 12 May 2010 20:08:06 -0700 As I have tried, archiva right now only handles the index of the first repository of the repository group. Issues MRM-1318 and MRM-815 are not fixed yet that would handle the index of the repository group. ... http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-1318 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRM-815 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Alex Franken <[email protected]> wrote: > I have set up an Archiva repository group. Within that group I have two > repositories (internal releases – excludes snapshots, snapshots – excludes > releases). > > My IDE (Eclipse/m2eclipse) is pulling down an index but it does not include > any snapshots (when trying to “Add Dependency”). This tells me that archiva > is publishing an index that m2eclipse can read. The timestamps for the > index files in both of my repositories look current (scanning every hour). > Could it be that the index returned from the repository group request is > only returning the “internal” repository index? > > > Could someone provide any insight on how the indexing mechanism w/ > repository groups? > > > eclipse (helios), m2eclipse latest version, archiva 1.3.2 > > > > Thanks. > > Alex >
