Could you rephrase? You think pom.xml is a dependency of the "dependency:tree" goal? If so, then the answer is no.
Cheers 2015-03-11 6:59 GMT+01:00 Cintia Del Rio <miladyarte...@gmail.com>: > Isn't it a dependency of the dependency plugin itself? > > On 11 March 2015 at 16:51, Baptiste Mathus <bmat...@batmat.net> wrote: > > > Well, in that case, since you're asking for the dependency:tree I'm even > > surprised there's any jar downloaded. Maven would only need pom to > compute > > that. Downloading Jars is only done when needed (say for compiling, etc.) > > > > Btw, do you really type "mvn dependency:tree pom.xml" ? What do you > expect? > > The "pom.xml" part is gonna lead to an error since pom.xml is not a goal > > and that's what's supposed to be listed after mvn. > > > > As for your question: I suppose oro is a transitive dependency of one of > > the things you depend on. mvn dependency:tree should generally show it > btw. > > > > Cheers > > > > 2015-03-10 15:22 GMT+01:00 D C <dc12...@gmail.com>: > > > > > I am trying to download all dependencies from a pom file. My steps > are: > > > 1. delete .m2/repository > > > 2. mvn dependency:tree pom.xml > > > > > > Everything looks good, however as I browse the .m2 directory I can see > > that > > > for some artifacts maven only downloaded the pom file, and did not > > > download the associated jar. I then repeat the process on another pom > > > file. This time the jar file is present for that same artifact. > > > > > > There are multiple artifacts that this happens on, but for > > troubleshooting > > > I'm just focusing on oro-2.0.8. Neither of my poms declare oro, so > this > > > is a sub-dependency somewhere down the chain. The process can be > > > reproduced every time, and I can see from the output that the > oro-2.0.8 > > > pom file is downloaded from the same location (local artifactory) in > both > > > cases. > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know why maven would download a pom file, and then not > > attempt > > > to download the associated jar? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > >
