I'm not a part of the team, just a heavy user... the problem is on YOUR machine... please follow the instructions in the error message.
Open the file: /home/murali/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/redback/plexus- spring/1.3-M2-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata-codehaus.snapshots.xml You will find that it contains an HTML error page instead of XML version information for plexus-spring. The error will tell you what to do. Most likely, it will tell you that the codehaus-snapshots repository is no longer at the URL you have in ONE OF your pom.xml files that you use to build projects on your box. You will have to delete this "bad" xml file, find the project that has the old url, correct it, and then start rebuilding your projects to get the new URL and correct download location established again. Then, you can rebuild this project. This happens quite a lot with repositories being moved or upgraded.. as folks move from "flat file" repositories to nexus managed ones, they put up HTML redirector pages, which get downloaded as maven XML version metadata... and they blow up our builds. This is a major reason that we have moved our largest client (186 projects in continuum) to a "master pom" model so we can control all the repository entries... we used to have these crashes every week and it was a real PITA to find the offending pom. Good Luck! Louis On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:20 AM, murali mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > Please help, team. > > -Murali > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM, murali mohan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am facing some problems with the plexus-spring snapshot dependencies, > > when I try to install continuum locally from root using "mvn clean > > -Dmaven.test.skip install". I have tried to clean the local maven > > repository and tried cleaning it, but no joy. Also tried downloading > > manually, but still the same error. Please suggest what I can do to > compile > > the full project. > > > > My final aim is to run the class BuildResultsPurge in > > continuum-xmlrpc-client project. > > > > Error: > > =============== > > > > Project ID: org.codehaus.redback:plexus-spring > > > > Reason: Error getting POM for 'org.codehaus.redback:plexus-spring' from > > the repository: Unable to read local copy of metadata: Cannot read > metadata > > from > > > '/home/murali/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/redback/plexus-spring/1.3-M2-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata-codehaus.snapshots.xml': > > expected START_TAG or END_TAG not TEXT (position: TEXT seen > > ...<extension>jar</... @14:25) > > org.codehaus.redback:plexus-spring:pom:1.3-M2-SNAPSHOT > > > > for project org.codehaus.redback:plexus-spring > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Murali > > > -- Dr. Louis Smith, ThD Chief Technology Officer, Kyra InfoTech Colonel, Commemorative Air Force
