Maven is not downloading updates, but only the SNAPSHOTS it is missing. If you build another time it won't download anything and even if your update window (mostly daily) has been passed Maven will not look for new updates but use the ones it has locally.
If you want to know which dependencies needs updates you can use the versions plugin. - versions:display-dependency-updates <http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/display-dependency-updates-mojo.html> scans a project's dependencies and produces a report of those dependencies which have newer versions available. - versions:display-plugin-updates <http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/display-plugin-updates-mojo.html> scans a project's plugins and produces a report of those plugins which have newer versions available. - versions:display-property-updates <http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/display-property-updates-mojo.html> scans a projectand produces a report of those properties which are used to control artifact versions and which properies have newer versions available. Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~~~ Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best ~~~ Lord Baden-Powell On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > At our project we recently had an issue where we accidentally included > outdated artifacts (which were still available on snapshot repositories). > To detect those issues in the future by our integration tests, I want to > instruct maven not to download snapshot updates, using the -nsu command > line argument. > > However, doing > > mvn clean install -nsu -DskipTests -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/test-mvn > > > will still lead to: > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Building flink-language-binding-generic 0.9-SNAPSHOT > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Downloading: > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xmlDownloaded > : > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml > (2 KB at 0.8 KB/sec)Downloading: > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/flink-compiler-0.9-20150313.122611-190.pomDownloaded > : > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/flink-compiler-0.9-20150313.122611-190.pom > (4 KB at 5.7 KB/sec)Downloading: > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/flink-compiler-0.9-20150313.122611-190.jarDownloaded > : > > http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/flink/flink-compiler/0.9-SNAPSHOT/flink-compiler-0.9-20150313.122611-190.jar > (2660 KB at 379.7 KB/sec) > > > I've added the steps to reproduce here: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5064?focusedCommentId=14551952&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14551952 > > I would like to know whether I misunderstood the feature or if this is a > bug. > > Best, > Robert >
