How to let m2eclipse use nexus repositories instead of maven one
- by lisak
I have this situation:
An artifact in maven local repo that I don't want to use anymore.
Instead, I want it to be downloaded by maven from proxied nexus remote repository. It's a typical situation cause a lot of artifacts are called just name-SNAPSHOT and the artifact is changing but the name is still the same.
Eclipse with m2eclipse is running.
I delete the entire directory of the artifact in local maven repo
m2eclipse "Reindex local maven repository" - which creates a new nexus index for local maven repo I guess
Project - maven Update Dependencies - now m2eclipse should run maven, which doesn't see the artifact in local maven repo, so it uses nexus repositories to download it (expected behavior)
Instead, the directory structure in maven local repo is recreated and there is this file: "m2e-lastUpdated.properties" with following inside:
local|http\://nexus\:8082/nexus-webapp-1.6.0/content/groups/public|javadoc=1274399332215
local|http\://nexus\:8082/nexus-webapp-1.6.0/content/groups/public|sources=1274399332161
and m2eclipse says Missing artifact net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:jar:2.8-SNAPSHOT:compile
even though the artifact physically exists here: nexus:8082/nexus-webapp-1.6.0/content/repositories/htmlunit-snapshot/net/sourceforge/htmlunit/htmlunit/2.8-SNAPSHOT/htmlunit-2.8-SNAPSHOT.jar
Maven just doesn't use this location at all. Trust me I tried everything, this m2eclipse behavior is terrible.
