Maybe this helps: https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/keep-netbeans-nimble-with-maven-remote-search <https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/keep-netbeans-nimble-with-maven-remote-search>
Gj > On 8 Aug 2017, at 18:24, Ciprian Ciubotariu <cheepe...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi there! > > Is there any way to instruct netbeans to NOT download this particular index? > > I could not find any GUI element that enables me to switch off just this > index, > so I was wondering if there is a text file I could edit within netbeans' > configuration. I am aware of turning off maven indexes completely, but this > is > not applicable for me, since I am using the overall feature - and it is an > awesome feature. > > The OSSRH snapshot index requires tens of gigabytes to unpack (30GiB, maybe > 60? Somewhere around that), and I don't want to allocate such free space just > for this. Besides, following the expected out-of-disk-space error, netbeans > enters an infinite loop trying again and again, which causes useless bandwith > stress and SSD wear. Cancelling the download also causes retries within a few > minutes. > > > I also wanted to take a look at the source code and help developing this > feature, but I don't know where the current source of truth for the source > code is right now, how to build netbeans etc. - but that's a discussion for > the dev mailing list. > > Ciprian
