I have been running into this problem when attempting to download an archive from a remote repository in a variety of ways as I attempted to work around it. I uploaded and verified the installation of an archive on a server that I set up via sftp. When I trigger a download, it seems to want to install the archive in a directory on my machine that mirrors its location on the remote server, rather than installing it in my local .m2 (maven2) repository.
Rather than give a long explanation, I coded up a pair of build scripts, one to create and upload the archive and another to unzip the archive. I tried to use code that is very close to documentation example code, so that any complexities are eliminated. Here's the details (with security sensitive details obscured. 1. A simple buildfile for a jar that has a single class in it. ...src/main/java/org/screwloose/repotest/RepoStub.java a. the buildfile VERSION_NUMBER = "1.0.0" # Group identifier for your projects GROUP = "repotest" COPYRIGHT = "" # Specify Maven 2.0 remote repositories here, like this: repositories.remote << "http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/"; # Specify Maven 2.0 remote repository to release to repositories.release_to = 'sftp:// someuser:[email protected]/usr/share/maven2/' desc "The Repotest project" define "repotest" do project.version = VERSION_NUMBER project.group = GROUP manifest["Implementation-Vendor"] = COPYRIGHT package(:jar) end b. running the buildfile ~/somedirectory/research/repotest $ buildr upload (in /somehomedirs/myusername/somedirectory/research/repotest, development) Building repotest Packaging repotest Running integration tests... Deploying packages from repotest Deploying repotest:repotest:pom:1.0.0 Deploying repotest:repotest:jar:1.0.0 Completed in 13.721s 2. Another stub buildfile with a compile, and hence, a build, dependency on downloading the jar from the remote. a. the stub # Generated by Buildr 1.3.5, change to your liking # Version number for this release VERSION_NUMBER = "1.0.0" # Group identifier for your projects GROUP = "repotest" COPYRIGHT = "" # Specify Maven 2.0 remote repositories here, like this: repositories.remote << 'sftp:// someuser:[email protected]/usr/share/maven2/' repositories.remote << "http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/"; desc "The Repotest Test Archive project" define "testarch" do project.version = VERSION_NUMBER project.group = GROUP manifest["Implementation-Vendor"] = COPYRIGHT the_jar = artifact('repotest:repotest:jar:1.0.0') task :unzip_jar => unzip(_("target/stuff") => the_jar) do compile.with Dir[_("target/stuff/WEB-INF/lib") + "/*.jar"] end task :compile => :unzip_jar end b. running the test script with trace ~/somedirectory/research/repotest $ buildr -f testsarc.rb --trace (in /somehomedirs/myusername/somedirectory/research/repotest, development) ** Invoke testarch (first_time) ** Execute testarch Defining task testarch:shell:jirb Defining task testarch:shell:clj Defining task testarch:shell:bsh ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant/1.7.1/ant-1.7.1.jar (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant-launcher/1.7.1/ant-launcher-1.7.1.jar (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant-trax/1.7.1/ant-trax-1.7.1.jar (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke /somelibrarydir/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.5/lib/buildr/java (first_time, not_needed) Defining task shell based on shell:bsh ** Invoke testarch ** Invoke default (first_time) ** Invoke build (first_time) ** Execute build Building testarch ** Invoke testarch:build (first_time) ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/somedirectory/research/repotest/target/classes (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke testarch:compile (first_time, not_needed) ** Invoke testarch:resources (first_time) ** Execute testarch:resources ** Invoke testarch:unzip_jar (first_time) ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/somedirectory/research/repotest/target/stuff (first_time) ** Invoke /somehomedirs/myusername/.m2/repository/repotest/repotest/1.0.0/repotest-1.0.0.jar (first_time) ** Execute /somehomedirs/myusername/.m2/repository/repotest/repotest/1.0.0/repotest-1.0.0.jar Downloading repotest:repotest:jar:1.0.0 Downloading repotest:repotest:jar:1.0.0 Connecting to someserver.somedomain.com connected Downloading to /usr/share/maven2/repotest/repotest/1.0.0/repotest-1.0.0.jar [hangs for an hour or more….<===========================]
