Thank you all! I was starting to lose it a bit - I'm glad I persisted.
Nexus community confirmed it's a bug in mvn that shall be addressed in version 3.0.4. 2011/9/28 Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]> > Mark, you were right: > > The "Maven User" (initial poster) uses jersey together with Jersey Spring > integration: > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/sun/jersey/contribs/jersey-spring/1.4/jersey-spring-1.4.pom > > And if you take a peek at POM above, it does declare ranges. So, even if > "Maven user" does not use ranges, they seems to "creep in" in hi's > transitive deps hull. > > > Thanks, > ~t~ > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Are you by any chance using version ranges in any of your poms - that > tends > > to cause maven to repeatedly download the metadata when checking for > newer > > versions to satisfy your ranges. > > > > > > >
