This error usually shows up when there is a problem accessing the central repository, or a corporate repository proxy.
Inheritance of site.xml from a parent is automatic, as long as the parent pom has its site.xml attached to it when you deploy it to your repository. On 2010-07-23 17:34, David J. Biesack wrote: > I'm seeing maven2 build failures because of the timeouts at central > > Caused by: org.apache.maven.doxia.tools.SiteToolException: > ArtifactNotFoundException: The skin does not exist: Unable to determine the > release version > Try downloading the file manually from the project website. > Then, install it using the command: > mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.skins > -DartifactId=maven-default-skin -Dversion=RELEASE -Dpackaging=jar > -Dfile=/path/to/file > Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file > there: > mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.skins > -DartifactId=maven-default-skin -Dversion=RELEASE -Dpackaging=jar > -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id] > org.apache.maven.skins:maven-default-skin:jar:RELEASE > > We have multiple Maven 2 builds and run Artifactory for a repo cache. > I've downloaded maven-default-skin-1.0 to our repo cache so it will be > resolved there, > but we still get the errors. Perhaps something is trying to reference a > snapshot skin, > but I don't know where it is coming from. > > I've read what I can find; it seems I need to specify the skin in a site.xml > but > I don't want to duplicate that in more than a dozen projects - I want to > inherit it from a parent pom > that they all use. > The on-line Maven book discusses creating a skin or configuring a skin, but I > can find no doc on > how to configure the skin site.xml via the parent pom or otherwise configure > so that all projects pick > up the same skin - maven-default-skin 1.0. > > Alternatively, is there is a fixed plug-in dependency that I can add to the > parent pom > so that it uses the 1.0 skin. We already have > > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId> > <version>2.1.1</version> > </plugin> > > in the parent pom and we still get the above error sometimes. > > thanks > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
