You wrote it so nicely: repo != mirror.
So, you have no repo set (only Central, that cannot contain snapshots), so there is no "candidate" repo at all present to even try to get a snapshot from. Mirror on the other hand is NOT a repo, it merely _redirects_ existing reposes to some other URL. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, NRO <nourredine.roui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
