[MNG-4554] [regression] plugin updates are requested on every build regardless of policies

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-alpha-6
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-7
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories, Plugins and Lifecycle
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Brett Porter
• Created: 31/Jan/10 21:03
• Updated: 01/Feb/10 15:58
• Resolved: 01/Feb/10 15:58

Description

I'm not sure if this is an intentional change that I've missed or not, but running something like:

mvn archetype:generate

will retrieve the metadata from the repository on every build:

Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml
9 KB downloaded at 17.1 KB/sec

This is in contrast to Maven 2.2.1 which always continues to use the first version encountered until you use -U:

  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <releases>
        <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
      </releases>

While that remains in the super POM of Maven 3, it seems that the metadata is retrieved regardless.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-4555 mvn archetype:generate -o (offline) still results in a "checking updates from central"