[MNG-4769] Regression: <enabled> flag for central cannot be overriden

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-beta-1, 3.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-beta-3
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Environment: Maven 3.0 beta 2
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Patrick Staton
• Created: 17/Aug/10 13:14
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 18:26
• Resolved: 24/Aug/10 18:23

Description

In Maven 2 I can disable central and other project repositories by declaring a repository with the same id in settings.xml and declaring <enabled>false</enabled> for both releases and snapshots. For example, in Maven 2, the following settings.xml will disable maven central for the current user:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings>
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>DEFAULT</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>DEFAULT</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>central</id>
          <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
          <url>http://foo.bar.com</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>central</id>
          <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
          <url>http://foo.bar.com</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

This no longer works in maven 3. With the above in my settings.xml, Maven 3 still searches for artifacts in central:

Apache Maven 3.0-beta-2 (r983206; 2010-08-07 07:00:51-0400)
Java version: 1.6.0_20
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.20.x86_64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ISO-8859-1
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.18-194.8.1.el5" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[DEBUG] Reading user settings from /users/foo/.m2/settings.xml
[DEBUG] Reading global settings from /users/foo/maven3/conf/settings.xml
[DEBUG] Using local repository at /users/foo/.m2/repository
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[DEBUG] Determining update check for <removed>:maven-plugin:1.1.3.9:runtime (/users/foo/.m2/repository/<removed>/1.1.3.9/<removed>-1.1.3.9.jar) from central (http://foo.bar.com)
[DEBUG] Searching for http://foo.bar.com in resolution tracking file.
[DEBUG] Skipped unreadable resolution tracking file /users/foo/.m2/repository/<removed>/1.1.3.9/<removed>-1.1.3.9.maven-plugin.lastUpdated
[DEBUG] Trying repository central for resolution of <removed>:maven-plugin:1.1.3.9 from <removed>/1.1.3.9/<removed>-1.1.3.9.jar
Downloading: http://foo.bar.com/<removed>/1.1.3.9/<removed>-1.1.3.9.jar

This is extremely helpful in our situation. Only being able to change the url of central is not enough, we would like to totally disable it.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-479 unable to override the default central repository
• is related to: MNG-4728 Allow repository to be disabled through settings.xml