Support additional read-only local repositories
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Key: MNG-4071
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4071
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Wish
Components: Artifacts and Repositories
Affects Versions: 3.0-alpha-3
Environment: Debian Linux in particular, any other environment
Reporter: Ludovic Claude
Priority: Minor
Work is under way at Debian to support Maven as a tool for building packaged
software.
Debian uses a local Maven repository (in /usr/share/maven-repo/) which is
updated by the Debian tools (dpkg, apt-get). This repository is read-only for
the normal user.
It would be great if users could use this repository in addition to their local
repository in ~/.m2/repo, and it would simplify the Debian tooling.
In Debian, when building a package you cannot download anything from the
Internet (to allow repeatable builds), so when packaging a Maven project, the
--offline option is always used. That means that if you try to trick Maven and
use file:///usr/share/maven-repo as a new repository, then it won't work as
Maven believes that it is a remote repository.
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