On Wednesday 28 June 2006 15:41, Tomasz Pik wrote: > On 6/28/06, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to use maven2 to build an existing ant based project, and am > > trying to get the dependancies right. > > > > Some of the jars we need are not published on ibilio, and so we have > > installed them locally using mvn install:install-file. > > > > The trouble is, our build still fails like so: > > > > 6/28/06 3:21:49 PM SAST: Reading /alchemy-trader/pom.xml > > 6/28/06 3:23:04 PM SAST: Unable to get dependency information: Unable to > > read the metadata file for artifact 'eclipse:eclipse-swt:jar': Error > > getting POM for 'eclipse:eclipse-swt' from the repository: Error > > transferring file > > eclipse:eclipse-swt:pom:3.1.0 > > > > from the specified remote repositories: > > central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) > > eclipse:eclipse-swt-3.1.0.jar > > > > Why is maven2 trying to read the metadata file, when the jar file is > > already present? > > To find out, if there are also dependencies, that needs to be downloaded > and so on. > > > Is there some way to tell maven2 "this is a local file in the local > > repository, do not try and download this file remotely"? > > Install them in local repository with generic POM, see > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-remote.html
If you do not need this dependency to be transient, you could use the <system>-scope and set the <systemPath> to point to the JAR. > > Regards, > Tomek > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
