[MNG-4071] Support additional read-only local repositories

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Environment: Debian Linux in particular, any other environment
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Ludovic Claude
• Created: 06/Mar/09 16:50
• Updated: 23/Mar/09 00:11
• Resolved: 23/Mar/09 00:11

Description

Work is under way at Debian to support Maven as a tool for building packaged software.
Debian uses a local Maven repository (in /usr/share/maven-repo/) which is updated by the Debian tools (dpkg, apt-get). This repository is read-only for the normal user.

It would be great if users could use this repository in addition to their local repository in ~/.m2/repo, and it would simplify the Debian tooling.

In Debian, when building a package you cannot download anything from the Internet (to allow repeatable builds), so when packaging a Maven project, the --offline option is always used. That means that if you try to trick Maven and use file:///usr/share/maven-repo as a new repository, then it won't work as Maven believes that it is a remote repository.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-3655 Allow multiple local repositories
• duplicates: MNG-2802 Concurrent-safe access to local Maven repository
• is related to: MNG-3043 Allow 'mvn test' to work with test-jar dependencies in a reactor