[MNG-2716] pluginRepositories seems to be ignored when running a goal without pom.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Environment: Linux debian 2.6.16-2-686
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Milos Volauf
• Created: 27/Dec/06 03:52
• Updated: 17/Dec/08 22:06
• Resolved: 05/Mar/08 20:59

Description

I wanted to try the maven-eclipse-plugin, the goal make-artifacts.

mvn eclipse:make-artifacts

However, make-artifacts goal is not in eclipse plugin 2.2, only in 2.3-SNAPSHOT.
So followed guides and added pluginRepositry section into my ~/.m2/settings.xml (attached)
so that I can use an apache plugin snapshot repository.

Then I tried:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:2.3-SNAPSHOT:make-artifacts -P apache

But maven did not try to load the snapshot plugin:

...
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

GroupId: org.apache.maven.plugins
ArtifactId: maven-eclipse-plugin
Version: 2.3-SNAPSHOT

Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

org.apache.maven.plugins:eclipse:pom:2.3-SNAPSHOT

from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

We can see that maven did not try the pluginRep. specified in settings.xml.

The I found out that if I run the command above in the folder where pom.xml exists, it works.
(I created an initial project by archetype plugin.)

So it seems to me that this is a (maybe small) bug. Usually, people run maven in folder where pom.xml exists, most goals require it.
However, certain goals can run without pom.xml (such as eclipse:make-artifacts) and here it seems to me that maven ignored my settings (pluginRepositories).

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-3099 Profiles ignored when working with non-projects (such as archetype:create)
• is related to: MNG-3337 Downloading plugins for an inhouse repository problem