Using Maven since 10+ years, we have a strange problem with MVN 3.5.0. What we want to achieve is to ensure that all dependencies are latest version, even if somebody did a bad thing and replaced a release version in Nexus.
So we type: mvn dependency:purge-local-repository This fails to re-resolve some of the artifacts in our POM (but not specific artifacts; always different ones!). But when we then (yes, directly subsequent) type: mvn dependency:go-offline it perfectly re-resolves and downloads everything -yes, even the failing ones- from Nexus. This is driving us nuts! Is that a bug or are we completely misunderstanding the concept of these commands? -Markus
