[ARCHETYPE-366] Maven mirror consulted after, rather than instead of, archetypeRepository URL

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: Generator
• Environment: Ubuntu 10.04, JDK 6.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jesse N. Glick
• Created: 09/Mar/11 15:48
• Updated: 25/Nov/14 14:48
• Resolved: 25/Nov/14 14:48

Description

I have a local Nexus instance running, with a mirror of Central, and in settings.xml:

<mirror>
    <id>central</id>
    <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    <url>.../content/repositories/central/</url>
</mirror>

This works fine for normal Maven operations. However, archetype:generate tries to download from the public repo first. So when I am online, after typing this:

rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes test
mvn -DarchetypeVersion=1.2 -Darchetype.interactive=false -DgroupId=test -DarchetypeArtifactId=osgi-archetype -DarchetypeRepository=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes -Dbasedir=/tmp -Dpackage=test -DartifactId=test --batch-mode archetype:generate

I see:

[INFO] Archetype defined by properties
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.jar
Downloaded: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.jar (4 KB at 8.7 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.pom
Downloaded: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.pom (947 B at 8.3 KB/sec)

with no mention of Nexus; when I am offline:

[INFO] Archetype defined by properties
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.jar
Downloading: http://localhost:6969/nexus/content/repositories/central/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.jar
Downloaded: http://localhost:6969/nexus/content/repositories/central/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.jar (4 KB at 128.8 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.pom
Downloading: http://localhost:6969/nexus/content/repositories/central/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.pom
Downloaded: http://localhost:6969/nexus/content/repositories/central/org/codehaus/mojo/archetypes/osgi-archetype/1.2/osgi-archetype-1.2.pom (947 B at 57.8 KB/sec)

once this resource is cached in the Nexus mirror repo. (Since the online command does not ask Nexus, it normally is not cached there and offline project creation simply fails; to force Nexus to cache it, I need to ask Maven to download it as a dep of something.)

If I do not specify an explicit archetypeRepository then I get

[INFO] Archetype repository missing. Using the one from [org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes:osgi-archetype:1.2] found in catalog remote

and Nexus is consulted first, but this parameter is needed as a workaround for ARCHETYPE-344.

One complicating factor with this example is that the 1.2 release of the archetype does not seem to be present in the Central index; I have no clue why. (It was released on February 15, i.e. more than three weeks ago, and my understanding is that the index is rebuilt weekly.) May not have anything to do with this bug, though.

Issue Links

• relates to: ARCHETYPE-344 Cannot use local snapshot archetypes w/o -DarchetypeRepository=local