[MNG-2408] Improve handling of "no plugin version found" error after intermittent errors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.5
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: Graham Leggett
• Created: 27/Jun/06 02:56
• Updated: 15/Jun/07 08:28
• Resolved: 01/Sep/06 11:15

Description

If you follow the instructions at http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#How%20do%20I%20make%20my%20first%20Maven%20project? to use the archetype plugin to create a new project skeleton, the suggested command line fails as below.

It seems there is a typo of some kind in the suggested command line, I am not familiar enough with maven 2 to know for sure.

Graham-Leggetts-Computer:~/src/standard/alchemy/maven minfrin$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=za.co.standardbank.alchemy -DartifactId=alchemy-trader
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-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 second
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jun 27 09:43:14 SAST 2006
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-2963 Do not update metadata unless the artifact actually made it down