[jboss-dev] Re: Maven weirdness: cannot find maven-dependency-plugin

[Paul Gier]

I think this is fixed now.  I just removed the metadata in our repository that 
must have had some conflict with the metadata in the central repo.  For now, it 
looks like when we check in stuff from the central repo we should just ignore 
the metadata files.  I'm going to make a note of this on the wiki.

Maven 2.0.9 seemed to handle it ok, so I think this is a bug that has been fixed 
recently, although looking through jira I didn't see anything that looked 
exactly like this issue.  Maybe it was this one 
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3415)

As a longer term solution, I'm working with Bob (of jboss.org) to set up a maven 
repository manager/proxy that we can use to save a copy of everything our builds 
use from the central repository.  This should allow us to use stuff from the 
central repository without having to manually upload a copy to our repository.


Kabir Khan wrote:
> I've tried deleting my local 
> org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin folder, and cannot get 
> a new version of the plugin. Following the mvn clean install shown 
> below, it only fetches down the metadata.xml files, and not the plugin 
> itself?
> 
> $ ls -al 
> ~/sourcecontrol/local.mavenrepo/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/ 
> 
> total 7
> drwxrwxrwx+  2 Kabir None   0 Apr 24 11:03 .
> drwxrwxrwx+ 26 Kabir None   0 Apr 24 11:03 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None 494 Apr 24 11:03 maven-metadata-central.xml
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None  40 Apr 24 11:03 maven-metadata-central.xml.sha1
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None 319 Apr 24 11:03 maven-metadata-jboss.xml
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None  40 Apr 24 11:03 maven-metadata-jboss.xml.sha1
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None 319 Apr 24 11:03 
> maven-metadata-repository.jboss.org.xml
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None  40 Apr 24 11:03 
> maven-metadata-repository.jboss.org.xml.sha1
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 Kabir None 157 Apr 24 11:03 
> maven-metadata-snapshots.jboss.org.xml
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kabir at KabirDell ~/sourcecontrol/jboss-ejb3
> $ mvn -U -up clean install
> ...
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Building JBoss EJB 3.0 Core
> [INFO]    task-segment: [clean, install]
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin: 
> checking for updates from repository.jboss.org
> [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin: 
> checking for updates from snapshots.jboss.org
> [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin: 
> checking for updates from jboss
> [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin: 
> checking for updates from central
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin' 
> does not exist or no valid version could be found
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 1 minute 7 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 24 11:03:20 BST 2008
> [INFO] Final Memory: 18M/35M
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>