I'm just a newbie to maven, but I believe that is the point of "SNAPSHOTS". By default, if you specify that you want the snapshot version of a dependency, maven will check once a day for newer snapshots. But that is configurable to check more or less frequently.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Leggett Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: How to prevent "Checking for updates from..." Hi all, I have a large multi-module build, that from time to time wants to go off to the (in our case slow) internet to "check for updates". In the pom file, all our repositories but one (our local repo) are set to have snapshots disabled like below, this doesn't seem to change maven though: maven still wants to check for updates from all these repos. Is there something else that needs to be done to stop maven checking for updates from external repos that don't host snapshots? The repositories are defined like this: <repository> <id>central</id> <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url> <layout>default</layout> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </repository> The "checking for updates" looks like this: [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ui:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from central [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ui:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ui:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus-legacy [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ui:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from eclipse.org [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ui:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from freehep-maven [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ii-platform:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from central [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ii-platform:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ii-platform:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus-legacy [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ii-platform:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from eclipse.org [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-ii-platform:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from freehep-maven [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-validation:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from central [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-validation:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-validation:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from codehaus-legacy [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-validation:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from eclipse.org [INFO] snapshot alchemy:alchemy-validation:4.3.0-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from freehep-maven Regards, Graham -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
