Hello, I have to set up Maven on a system which is completely offline, restricted to work on a few, select projects.
During testing, everything initially looked good, I could perform "mvn clean install" in all projects without issue, and could perform other Maven-task as well, Intellij was happy, it could resolve all projects fully, run all test cases etc, and did not complain about any missing artifacts. However, then I noticed, almost by accident, that I couldn't do "package" or "verify" (which was odd, since install works, which is a later phase!), because then surefire (3.0.0-M5) would complain it was missing org.apache.maven:maven-toolchain:jar:3.0-alpha-2 (or one of its dependencies). Why Surefire would suddenly need that artifact (some old alpha from 2009..), during package- or verify-phase feels weird to me since the later phase, install, works, and install entails packaging and verification (compile also works, btw) surefire-3.0.0-M3 also suffers from this issue...2.18.1 does not What's going on here? Is my analysis correct, that if I can do "mvn clean install", then "mvn clean package" should not be an issue, since installs entails packaging? For this exotic setup, we can easily work around this, obviously, but it feels like a bug to me so I wanted to share it with you - Eric L