You can create a mirror. If you supply the right id, it will simply work. http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-mirror-settings.html
-- -- Aldrin Leal, <ald...@leal.eng.br> / http://meadiciona.com/aldrinleal On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:17 AM, ryenus blatt <rye...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > in pom.xml, is it possible to setup a substitution rule to replace a > repository with another one? > e.g.: > > <repository> > <id>xxx</id> > <url>http://yyy.org/</url> > <subsitute>http://zzz.org/</substitute> > </repository> > > the reason is, in case the repository zzz.org is down, with the > substitution rule set, maven can immediately turn to yyy.org, instead of > try zzz.org and wait and fail then turn to yyy.org, the latter, which is > the current situation, would waste a lot of time if their are too many > (e.g. 100+) artifacts supposed to be fetched from zzz.org. > > my case? maven.glassfish.org is down and it took me more than 30 mins to > run mvn eclipse:eclipse, the project is > https://github.com/ikeike443/HudsonPluginForPlay >