I guess it's not the end of the world (especially if we end up supplying a conf/settings.xml file with a custom mvn install).
Ok, so for things like repo1 (where I want to set up archiva as a proxy AND configure multiple mirrors in case of unavailability), do I use the <proxy> settings in settings.xml or do I set up repo1 (and a few mirrors) as remote repositories? -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Choosing which repositories you install to On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:47 AM, EJ Ciramella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ideally, if people had an entry in settings.xml for a repository, it'd > be a single entry pointing to archiva (is this even possible?). ... > Is this even possible? Will we have to roll our own maven 2 > installation (utilizing the conf/settings.xml to load repositories)? You have to put the configuration somewhere... having a custom maven distribution is sometimes easier than instructing each developer to download a settings file and put it in a certain place. It also has the advantage of standardizing what Maven version is being used to build your projects. It's up to you, though. I don't understand why it's important to have exactly *one* item in settings.xml. It's admittedly a bit ugly right now with repositories and pluginRepositories and mirrors, but it works. :) It should improve once the repository grouping feature in the next version of Archiva is available and you can serve multiple repos from a single url. -- Wendy
