Hi, I have a project A that depends on an artifact X which is a SNAPSHOT. Artifact X uses a parent pom X1 which uses a parent pom X2. Both X1 and X2 are SNAPSHOTs. Artifact X, X1 and X2 are available from a remote repository R.
In the pom of project A, I included repository R by defining its id, name and url. Artifacts X, X1 and X2 were brought in to my local repository by running mvn install on the project pom. I want to be able to stop Maven from getting updates on artifact X. On a new day, if I run mvn install in offline mode, the build fails. After I build the project in online mode, subsequent builds on the same day can be run in offline mode. I did a couple of tests: Test 1. I advanced the date to a day later than today and then ran "mvn -o -e install". The build failed and the error was that X was missing. The error messages suggested to download X manually from the project site and then install it using mvn install:install. Test 2. In the pom of project A, I added <snapshots><updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy></snapshots> to respository section of R. I advanced the date to a day later and then ran "mvn -o -e install". The build failed. The message thrown by org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolutionException indicated that it was unable to read the metadata file for artifact X: Cannot find parent X2 for X1 for X. It looks like that in Test 1, Maven did not see X to be in my local repository. In Test 2, by introducing repository snapshot never update policy in the project pom, Maven seems to see X and X1 but not X2. I am fairly new to Maven. Can someone tell me how to stop Maven to look for updates on snapshots (or its parent pom)?
