Nico De Groote created MNG-5526: ----------------------------------- Summary: parent with 'RELEASE' version not resolved when only maven-metadata-local.xml (with a SNAPSHOT pom) file available in the local nexus repo Key: MNG-5526 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5526 Project: Maven 2 & 3 Issue Type: Bug Components: Dependencies Affects Versions: 3.0.5, 3.0.4, 3.0.3 Reporter: Nico De Groote Priority: Critical Attachments: artifact_pom.xml, parent-pom.xml
We have a parent pom project containing all infrastructure + plugin version to be used by all our projects. We always point to the RELEASE of this parent pom for our projects. However when there is only a maven-metadata-local.xml in our local nexus repo, we get the following error. Non-resolvable parent POM: Failed to resolve version for be.company:parent:pom:RELEASE and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 3, column 11 -> [Help 2] org.apache.maven.model.resolution.UnresolvableModelException: Failed to resolve version for be.company:parent:pom:RELEASE at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectModelResolver.resolveModel(ProjectModelResolver.java:159) at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.readParentExternally(DefaultModelBuilder.java:819) at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.readParent(DefaultModelBuilder.java:670) at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.build(DefaultModelBuilder.java:308) at org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.build(DefaultModelBuilder.java:232) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:386) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:355) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:319) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:632) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjectsForMavenReactor(DefaultMaven.java:581) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:233) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Failed to resolve version for be.company:parent:pom:RELEASE at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:541) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:220) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:197) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveArtifact(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:323) at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectModelResolver.resolveModel(ProjectModelResolver.java:155) ... 22 more Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.VersionResolutionException: Failed to resolve version for be.company:parent:pom:RELEASE at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultVersionResolver.resolveVersion(DefaultVersionResolver.java:273) at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:276) ... 26 more When we remove this meta-data-local.xml file, all works fine again. It also works fine if there are already som maven-metadata-nexus.xml files available I could reproduce this by using the following pom projects (see attachments), and following these steps: 1) deploy a version 1.0.0 for the parent pom to your repo; 2) remove the deployed parent from your local repo (suppose someone else did the deploy to the remote repository) 3) install/deploy a version 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT to your repo; 4) now try to install/deploy the artifact project, pointing to the RELEASE version of the parent pom.... you will get the given error -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira