[hibernate-dev] gradle build problems

Fresh checkout of master (4.0) from github, and ./gradlew yields: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: org.slf4j#slf4j-api;1.6.0: not found :: xml-apis#xml-apis;1.0.b2: not found :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I do not have any .m2 directory locally, and repository.jboss.org and snapshots.jboss.org do not have the versions of the projects listed above. However, repo2.maven.org has these artifacts, but the configuration is not looking there. Can someone point me how to get my .m2 initialized with the missing resources, or how to get gradle to search maven.org? (note: build.gradle specifies version 1.5.8, yet 1.6.0 is being requested, also something I cannot understand).