I have set the global settings.xml file in the maven>installations
preferences and I have also set maven>user-settings to point somewhere else.

There is something else in m2e that is causing it to look in ~/.m2 - perhaps
a bug? - but I cannot figure out what.

Cheers, Eric

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Fred Bricon <[email protected]> wrote:

> m2e uses an Embedded Maven version. It has no knowledge of any existing
> maven installation (you could use m2e without installing maven locally)
> So you need to tell m2e explicitely what global configuration it must use.
> Go to Window > Preferences > Maven > Installations > Global settings
>
> HIH
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred Bricon
>
> 2011/8/3 Eric Kolotyluk <[email protected]>
>
>> I've been trying for over an hour to get m2e stop using ~/.m2 as my local
>> repository.
>>
>> In my global settings.xml file I have
>>
>> <localRepository>C:/Program Files (Open)/maven/.m2</localRepository>
>>
>> I do not have any ~/.m2/settings.xml, so I am assuming it should default
>> to the global settings. It certainly is reading the global settings.
>>
>> And sure enough in Eclipse C:/Program Files (Open)/maven/.m2 shows up as
>> my local repository. But for some reason whenever I build something it puts
>> everything in ~/.m2, and when I do an install it puts everything there too.
>>
>> It is also putting stuff in C:/Program Files (Open)/maven/.m2 as well, but
>> it seems to be rather schizophrenic about where the actual local repository
>> is. Is there any way I can convince m2e to not use ~/.m2 and obey the global
>> settings.xml?
>>
>> Cheers, Eric
>>
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