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

[Kabir Khan]

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] 
------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Kabir Khan
JBoss AOP Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat