OK, agree that the README should not say to always use -U when building. However, it should say that when strange errors occur during a build, running with -U *may* help. Eddie ran into such problem and suggested documentation change to help users remedy the situation. The point is that it is not obvious that local m2 is out of date and the refresh is necessary.
Jerry On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > Normal builds with good network connectivity shouldn't need to use the -U > operation. > > doing the -U operator makes building much slower. That's why it's usually > not > done; but only done when the build needs to depend on something whose > "access" > path to the artifact in the cloud "failed" - to prevent excess network > delays, > these are blocked for 1 day (but the -U overrides that). > > see https://www.google.com/search?q=maven+%22-u%22 > > -Marshall > On 1/5/2018 4:30 PM, Jerry Cwiklik (JIRA) wrote: > > Jerry Cwiklik created UIMA-5694: > > ----------------------------------- > > > > Summary: UIMA-AS: Update README to say that mvn -U should > be used for building > > Key: UIMA-5694 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-5694 > > Project: UIMA > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: Async Scaleout > > Reporter: Jerry Cwiklik > > Assignee: Jerry Cwiklik > > Fix For: future-Uima-AS > > > > > > The local m2 repo may get stale and builds may fail with strange errors > like this: > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project uimaj-ep-deployeditor: Could > not resolve dependencies for project > org.apache.uima:uimaj-ep-deployeditor:jar:2.10.2: > Failed to collect dependencies at > org.eclipse.pde:org.eclipse.pde.ui:jar:3.9.100 > -> org.eclipse.pde:org.eclipse.pde.core:jar:[3.6.0,4.0.0): No versions > available for org.eclipse.pde:org.eclipse.pde.core:jar:[3.6.0,4.0.0) > within specified range -> [Help 1] > > > > When building force maven to check for updated releases and snapshots on > remote repositories using this command: > > > > mvn -U clean install > > > > Note the -U which forces the update. > > > > > > > > -- > > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > > (v6.4.14#64029) > > > >
