Whats wrong with using a repo manager? It simplifies the problem you are trying to solve.
--- Todd Thiessen > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Slifka [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:16 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Hosting a local repo w/out a Repo Manager? > > Hi all, > I'm working on wrapping my head around setting up an internal > "blessed" > repository and being assured that Maven will fail when a > dependency is not found there. > > (1) Clear my local repo. > (2) Run Maven through our lifecycle (clean, compile, package, > test, etc.). > (3) Take the contents of my now-populated local repo and copy > them up to a shared location. > > Now I'm not sure what to do next. I've tried overriding both > the central repo and plugin repo with my local repo in our > POMs, however this consistently seems to ignore plugins that > are found in my internal repo (i.e. claim they aren't there > when they are). It also attempts to check for updates to > plugins that aren't -SNAPSHOT versions and I'm not sure quite why. > > Given the trouble I'm having, I'm pretty sure I'm way off the > reservation here with what and how I'm doing this. Looking > inside the repo, there are central XML files that Maven is > probably surprised to find inside the local repo? > > I'm not terribly interested in adding another piece of > software to our build environment, hence my avoidance of a > Repository Manager. We have a very small number of > dependencies outside of our project. Maven's own > dependencies dwarf ours :) > > Any tips are much appreciated, thanks! > > Rob > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
