Configuration of a remote mirror

[Edderd <ej...@summitbid.com>]

Recently there has been some discussion on the maven mailing list about
"mirrors of central and considerate repo use"

I'd like to set up my archiva config for use with a mirror but I'm not sure
if I'm doing it correctly. Is the idea that, the mirror will be accessed
before repo1?

I added a mirror descriptor to my global settings.xml. 

   <mirror>
          <id>sonatype.net</id>
          <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
          <name>Sonatype Mirror of Central Repository</name>
          <url>http://repo2.sonatype.net/maven2</url>
        </mirror>

Is this the correct way to proceed?

I'm running maven 2.0.9, archiva 1.1.3 standalone on an Ubuntu linux box

Thanks.
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Re: Configuration of a remote mirror

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

On 02/12/2008, at 12:15 AM, Edderd wrote:

>
> Recently there has been some discussion on the maven mailing list  
> about
> "mirrors of central and considerate repo use"
>
> I'd like to set up my archiva config for use with a mirror but I'm  
> not sure
> if I'm doing it correctly. Is the idea that, the mirror will be  
> accessed
> before repo1?
>
> I added a mirror descriptor to my global settings.xml.
>
>   <mirror>
>          <id>sonatype.net</id>
>          <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
>          <name>Sonatype Mirror of Central Repository</name>
>          <url>http://repo2.sonatype.net/maven2</url>
>        </mirror>

This will cause all your Maven central repository traffic to go to  
this server instead of Archiva, which is probably not what you want.

If you've already configured all your central repository traffic to go  
to Archiva, you can change the server it proxies from by changing the  
remote repository URL for central from the repositories tab.

Cheers,
Brett

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