Try this step after building hadoop-trunk in order to push the bits to maven cache. mvn install -DskipTests
hope that helps, -mike. -----Original Message----- From: Mariappan Asokan [mailto:maso...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:19 PM To: dev@tez.incubator.apache.org Subject: Tez build failure I built the Apache Hadoop trunk and I have the jars on my local disk. How do I make Tez make use of them and avoid the following error? Plugin org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-maven-plugins:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-maven-plugins:jar:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-maven-plugins:pom:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT in maven2-repository. Thanks. -- Asokan **