Barrie
https://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-development-plugins.html
suggests setting up profile in settings.xml to enable or disable snapshots then
invoke mvn profile
mvn -pProfileWithoutSnapshot
did you try configuring profile in settings.xml?
Martin
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> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:09:24 +0930
> Subject: maven-remote-resources-plugin downloads from disabled repositories
> From: baerr...@gmail.com
> To: dev@maven.apache.org
>
> I'm tinkering with maven-scm and when I build it locally via
> ../maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin> mvn -X clean install -Drat.skip
>
> Maven attempts to download the snapshot metadata for it's the already
> installed snapshot files. (This is probably because I'm running inside a
> module and not at the top level)
>
> I've attempted to disable apache.snapshots in settings.xml as I dont want
> any snapshot I haven't built myself.
>
> The configuration debugs indicate that the repositories are are disabled -
> but Maven still attempts to get the metadata. It looks like
> maven-remote-resources-plugin is the culprit.
>
> Does anyone else see this?
>
> I've only recently re-setup my Mac to cut code, so its possible I've not
> got something configured correctly.
>
> > mvn -v
> Apache Maven 3.2.5 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1;
> 2014-12-15T03:59:23+10:30)
> Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.5/libexec
> Java version: 1.6.0_65, vendor: Apple Inc.
> Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
> OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.9.5", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
>
> The debug output:
>
> [DEBUG] Configuring mojo
> 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.5:process' with
> basic configurator -->
> [DEBUG] (f) appendedResourcesDirectory =
> /Users/barrie/ide/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin/src/main/appended-resources
> [DEBUG] (f) attachToMain = true
> [DEBUG] (f) attachToTest = true
> [DEBUG] (f) attached = true
> [DEBUG] (f) basedir = /Users/barrie/ide/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin
> [DEBUG] (f) encoding = UTF-8
> [DEBUG] (f) excludeTransitive = false
> [DEBUG] (f) includeProjectProperties = false
> [DEBUG] (f) includeScope = runtime
> [DEBUG] (f) localRepository = id: local
> url: file:///Users/barrie/.m2/repository/
> layout: default
> snapshots: [enabled => true, update => always]
> releases: [enabled => true, update => always]
>
> [DEBUG] (f) outputDirectory =
> /Users/barrie/ide/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin/target/maven-shared-archive-resources
> [DEBUG] (f) remoteArtifactRepositories = [ id: central
> url: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
> layout: default
> snapshots: [enabled => false, update => never]
> releases: [enabled => true, update => daily]
> , id: apache.snapshots
> url: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group
> layout: default
> snapshots: [enabled => false, update => never]
> releases: [enabled => false, update => never]
> ]
> [DEBUG] (f) resourceBundles = [org.apache:apache-jar-resource-bundle:1.4]
> [DEBUG] (f) resources = [Resource {targetPath: null, filtering: false,
> FileSet {directory:
> /Users/barrie/ide/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin/src/main/resources,
> PatternSet [includes: {}, excludes: {}]}}]
> [DEBUG] (f) runOnlyAtExecutionRoot = false
> [DEBUG] (f) skip = false
> [DEBUG] (f) useDefaultFilterDelimiters = true
> [DEBUG] (f) mavenSession = org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession@569c6f2
> [DEBUG] (f) project = MavenProject:
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT @
> /Users/barrie/ide/maven/maven-scm/maven-scm-plugin/pom.xml
> [DEBUG] -- end configuration --
>
> ...
>
> [DEBUG]
> org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-provider-svntest:jar:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT:test
> (selected for test)
> [DEBUG] org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-test:jar:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT:test
> (selected for test)
> [DEBUG] Building project for
> org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-manager-plexus:jar:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT:compile
> [DEBUG] Using transporter WagonTransporter with priority -1.0 for
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/
> [DEBUG] Using connector BasicRepositoryConnector with priority 0.0 for
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/
> Downloading:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-managers/1.9.5-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
> [DEBUG] Writing tracking file
> /Users/barrie/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-managers/1.9.5-SNAPSHOT/resolver-status.properties
> [WARNING] Could not transfer metadata
> org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-managers:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
> from/to apache.snapshots (
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/):
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not generate DH keypair
> org.eclipse.aether.transfer.MetadataTransferException: Could not transfer
> metadata
> org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-managers:1.9.5-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
> from/to apache.snapshots (
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/):
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not generate DH keypair
>
> I'm ignoring the known error with DH crypto problems - I just want it to
> not try to download snapshots...
