Snapshots of plugins are explicitly banned as are not specifying versions of plugins and relying on maven's super pom (years ago, I got whacked with this when the war plugin changed).
But I'm not saying I'm mirroring JUST central, I thought I was saying "I'm mirroring every repository you could possibly need". See my comment about the <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > > One reason you might do it is to enable a repository to be searched > > for snapshots. By default, Maven's built-in definition of 'central' > > only has releases enabled. Unless you define another repository > > somewhere that has snapshots enabled, Maven will never retrieve any > > snapshots. > > > This is exactly why ^^ > > You need to do the same for pluginRepositories if you ever want to get > snapshots of plugins. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
