Maven doesn't have a good solution for this. The choice is
either change the poms in our repository or tell people not to put repos in the poms, but
Nexus doesn't have a way to enforce this.
Do we have a page outlining 'best practices'/requirements for being mirrored to
central ?
/max
Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>> And yes it seems weld-parent explicitly lists
repository.jboss.org in its
parent pom forcing this repo to be used for resolving dependencies afaics.
>>>
>>> Even if I have nexus configured to control my dependencies it will visit that
;(
>>>
>>> I thought mirroring to maven central would not allow this to happen ?
>>
>> That rule got dropped about a year ago (maybe 18 months) due to the
impracticality of it).
>
> And here I thought it was an excellent rule since it forces cleaner artifacts instead
of this situation ;(
>
>> I guess this is now transitional, we can start to remove these declarations in
updates to POMs as stuff get's moved to central.
>
> Well, reproducible builds are to me more important than lazy pom's ;)
>
> Much better to have a settings.xml committed if its ease of use you want for those
building.
>
>> Max, could you make a WELD issue for this?
>
> I've created
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-948
>
> Just to check I searched for other references and found the additional problems:
>
> CDI API: javax/enterprise/cdi-api/1.0-SP4/cdi-api-1.0-SP4.pom
> JBoss EE 6:
org/jboss/spec/jboss-javaee-6.0/1.0.0.Final/jboss-javaee-6.0-1.0.0.Final.pom
> RestEasy:
org/jboss/resteasy/resteasy-jaxrs-all/2.1.0.GA/resteasy-jaxrs-all-2.1.0.GA.pom (actually
have about multiple external repos declared)
>
> Paul - is this really what we want for our mirroring to maven central ? I thought
these things had to be cleaned up?
>
> We should get documented how users need to be careful about these - especially if
this also leaks into AS7/EAP6 and dependent builds...
>
> /max
>
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