On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > The reason is simple:
Simple, but not obvious ;) > > Maven needs at least one snapshot repo configured, or it won't even > attempt to ask anyone (specifically Nexus via the mirrorOf * setting) > for any snapshots. Maven has built in an existing repository with the > ID central but it is enabled only for releases. We must do either: 1) I was kind of guessing that. So, Maven, by default has the actual Maven Central Repo defined under the id "central" . . . I didn't quite realize that before. > define another repo as snapshot only, or 2) enable snapshots for the > built in central id. The example chooses 2. We could have used 1, but > since I put in the example from years of habit, that's what stuck ;-) > So, in a nutshell, you've redefined the repo with id of central to point somewhere else, the bogus URL, and then mirrored it with the wildcard. > You'll also note that I like to redefine the url as well so that when > maven spits out what it's doing, it's immediately apparent if my > settings are ignored or not. Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
