[MNG-5997] Continuous download of maven-metadata.xml for version ranges.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.2
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Hüttermann
• Created: 12/Apr/16 06:34
• Updated: 22/Dec/19 16:00
• Resolved: 22/Dec/19 13:36

Description

With every first build of the day, Maven downloads maven-metadata.xml from remote repository. Generally, this is ok since the default update policy enforces an update. But: the daily synced dependency artifacts are release artifacts, in the declaration form of:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.this</groupId>
    <artifactId>com.that</artifactId>
    <version>[1.0.0,1.0.1)</version>
    <type>jar</type>
</dependency>

So looks like the daily roundtrips are performed since there are version ranges defined?! Since there are hundreds of dependencies, this takes a pretty long time, and nothing did change, operationally, because I've already downloaded all required dependencies.

Please suppress these daily roundtrips of downloading maven-metadata.xml, for that use case, in general a check for new updates should be applied of cause (thus just using the offline mode is not a solution).