Justin, 

        Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I will take your 
suggestions and go that route. 

thanks,

-jr

On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Justin Edelson wrote:

> There's a few ways to do this, but I would...
> 1) check out the source at a known revision number.
> 2) check it into your own SCM.
> 3) modify the POM to have your own version number
> 4) mvn -DaltDeploymentRepository=<your own repo>
> -DupdateReleaseInfo=true deploy
> 
> The syntax for altDeploymentRepository is id::layout::url (layout is
> "default" 99.999% of the time). See
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-mojo.html
> 
> You could alternatively go through the full release process, but that's
> unnecessary IMHO unless you are patching the original source and would
> require making more changes to the original pom.
> 
> BTW, you mean "timestamped" snapshots, not "versioned" snapshots. All
> artifacts are versioned.
> 
> I don't think Nexus can do what you're describing, but that's probably a
> better question for the Nexus list.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> On 4/16/10 9:38 AM, James Russo wrote:
>> Hello, 
>> 
>>      I have a project which has a dependency (jersey) on a -snapshot 
>> version. The publisher does *not* publish versioned snapshots, so I can't 
>> just override the dependency to use the version snapshot and then roll my 
>> own release. 
>> 
>> What are my options for turning this dependency into a versioned snapshot? 
>> I'm thinking about just downloading the source and changing the pom to 
>> deploy it to my own nexus repo where it will create a versioned snapshot.. 
>> Will requirement me to change repo path in pom and keep my own copy but this 
>> isn't a bad thing.
>> 
>> However, I was thinking if there was another way via proxy? Can I setup 
>> nexus to proxy to the other repo and grab a snapshot and create a versioned 
>> snapshot at that time? So I can use a versioned snapshot from my own repo, 
>> but it really would have originated from the java repo as an unversioned 
>> snapshot? The version information would be added at time of proxy? Is this 
>> possible?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> -james
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