Fw: apache.snapshots repository quirks mode

[Mark Struberg <st...@yahoo.de>]

FYI: for building OWB with the new checkstyle, you need to add a bit to your settings.xml due to a problem with multiple 'apache.snapshots' repositories.

LieGrue,
strub

--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Mark Struberg <st...@yahoo.de> wrote:

> From: Mark Struberg <st...@yahoo.de>
> Subject: apache.snapshots repository quirks mode
> To: infrastructure@apache.org
> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 1:50 PM
> Hi!
> 
> Sadly there is some problem which got introduced by using
> the same repositoryId 'apache.snapshots' for different
> locations.
> 
> The old snapshot repository location has been:
> http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository
> 
> while the new one is:
> http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/
> 
> Both are currently used in various poms and this leads to
> the problem that the snapshot information cannot be
> calculated correctly in a few cases.
> 
> The problem I have is that maven in this case fails to
> determine the correct timestamp from the metadata:
> 
> [INFO] [remote-resources:process {execution: default}]
> [INFO] [bundle:manifest {execution: bundle-manifest}]
> [WARNING] Ignoring project type pom - supportedProjectTypes
> = [jar, bundle, war]
> [INFO] [site:attach-descriptor {execution:
> default-attach-descriptor}]
> [INFO] Parent project loaded from repository.
> [INFO] Preparing source:jar
> [WARNING] Removing: jar from forked lifecycle, to prevent
> recursive invocation.
> [INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
> [INFO] [source:jar {execution: default}]
> [INFO] Preparing checkstyle:check
> [INFO] snapshot
> org.apache.openwebbeans.build-tools:checkstyle-rules:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT:
> checking for updates from apache.snapshots
> Downloading: http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/org/apache/openwebbeans/build-tools/checkstyle-rules/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-rules-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
> [INFO] Unable to find resource
> 'org.apache.openwebbeans.build-tools:checkstyle-rules:pom:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
> in repository apache.snapshots (http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository)
> Downloading: http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/openwebbeans/build-tools/checkstyle-rules/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-rules-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
> [INFO] Unable to find resource
> 'org.apache.openwebbeans.build-tools:checkstyle-rules:pom:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
> in repository apache.snapshots (http://repository.apache.org/snapshots)
> Downloading: http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/org/apache/openwebbeans/build-tools/checkstyle-rules/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-rules-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> [INFO] Unable to find resource
> 'org.apache.openwebbeans.build-tools:checkstyle-rules:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
> in repository apache.snapshots (http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository)
> Downloading: http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/openwebbeans/build-tools/checkstyle-rules/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/checkstyle-rules-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> [INFO] Unable to find resource
> 'org.apache.openwebbeans.build-tools:checkstyle-rules:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
> in repository apache.snapshots (http://repository.apache.org/snapshots)
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> There exists a workaround but this requires that every user
> has to add the following section into his
> ~/.m2/settings.xml:
> 
>   <mirrors>
>     <mirror>
>      
> <id>new.apache.snapshots</id>
>       <name>new apache snapshots
> repository. We need this to skip the old ones</name>
>       <url>http://repository.apache.org/snapshots</url>
>      
> <mirrorOf>apache.snapshots</mirrorOf>
>     </mirror>
>   </mirrors>
> 
> So what shall we do with the 'old' apache.snapshots
> repository?
> 
> LieGrue,
> strub
> 
> 
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