Hi! Being a newbie to maven, I wonder if this idea could work: I want to have my own remote repository with a subset of the content of http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ <http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/> located at my local machine where I could access it using the "file:" protocol. And in addition I want to prevent maven from accessing http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ <http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/> any longer so that my own remote repository will be the only one to be used. My idea was to start with using the standard repository http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/ <http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/> as usual, so that my local repository got populated. Then I copied the content of my local repository to the directory where the location of my remote repository should be. My pom.xml looks like this: <repositories> <repository> <id>wollox-repo</id> <url>file:U:///Modules/my-remote-repo/</url> <layout>default</layout> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>wollox-plugin-repo</id> <url>file:U:///Modules/my-remote-repo/</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories>
After deleting my local repository and disconnecting from the internet I called maven on my project (mvn clean), but it showed this error: [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin: checking for updates from wollox-plugin-repo [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin: checking for updates from central [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' could not be retrieved from re pository: central due to an error: Error transferring file [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found So I wonder if it is possible at all to take the local repository as base of my own remote repository? And how can I disable that "checking for updates from central"? Regards Gerald
