nicolas vigier wrote: > > Nothing should be downloaded from remote maven repositories during RPM > builds. All dependencies should be installed from rpm packages only. > > > So you propose that we package every version of every maven plugin and dependency as RPMs and basically reinvent the entire Maven artifact architecture ?
It's not a question of "use the most current or fix it". POMs allow the author to specify the version of the artifact, and it doesn't matter whether it would work with a later version or not, because Maven will be no more tolerant of a version mismatch than RPM would be. It simply won't build unless you rewrite the POM, in which case you can kiss upstream support goodbye.
