As I believe this was discussed on the Nexus list, the reason is what you state. You have no repo defined in settings.xml, which means that only the default central repo declaration is used which is only configured for releases and not snapshots. And you're trying to retreieve a snapshot. So this wouldn't be a bug in core.
/Anders On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, NRO <nourredine.roui...@gmail.com> wrote: > A maven project which have a parent SNAPSHOT cannot be resolved when : > > a) the Parent SNAPSHOT pom is not present in the local maven repository > b) the Parent SNAPSHOT pom is deployed in a Nexus repository by another > developer. > c) settings.xml has a mirror redirecting all (*) to Nexus > d) there is no <repository> entry in the settings.xml file as Nexus is used > for all resolutions. > > Easy to reproduce on Maven 2.2.1, 3.0.4 and probably earlier releases. > > - If the SNAPSHOT parent is instead used as a dependency of the project > then > maven can resolve the dependency and retrieve it from Nexus. > > Work around: > > If you add a dumb repo entry in the settings.xml file, then it works. > > Exemple of such entry is a fake repository and it does not even have to be > a > snapshot repo... > > settings.xml > > [...] > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>foo</id> > <url>http://foo</url> > </repository> > </repositories> > [...] > > simplest work around. > > But to MHO, there is a bug in the Maven code when doing parent snapshot > resolution. If the parent snapshot is not present in the local repo AND > there is no <repository> entry in the settings.xml file, it simply fails. > It > does not try the mirror. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Parent-SNAPSHOT-not-resolved-Maven-2-2-1-3-0-4-Nexus-repo-tp5772374.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
