[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2408?page=all ]
John Casey updated MNG-2408:
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Priority: Blocker (was: Major)
It seems that this is becoming a more common issue. From what I can tell,
either the metadata download is failing (network problem), or else the file
itself doesn't exist on the server. In either case, Maven is gleefully writing
a new metadata file that contains 'LATEST' for the main <version/>, which
should never happen.
In 2.1, we should look at separating the meta-versions like RELEASE and LATEST
from real versions, to avoid the need to correct for this sort of situation.
For now, it might be a good idea to refrain from writing a dummy metadata file
in the local repository when representing a remotely retrieved piece of
metadata...will look into this more later.
*As a workaround*
You should be able to traverse in your local repository to the plugin's
artifactId folder (org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin in this
example), and remove maven-metadata-*.xml. When you re-run the build, it should
restore these metadata files from the repositories, and should resume normal
functioning.
> Improve handling of "no plugin version found" error after intermittent errors
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-2408
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2408
> Project: Maven 2
> Type: Bug
> Components: Artifacts and Repositories, Artifacts, Documentation: Guides
> Versions: 2.0.4
> Reporter: Graham Leggett
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 2.0.5
>
>
> If you follow the instructions at
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#How%20do%20I%20make%20my%20first%20Maven%20project?
> to use the archetype plugin to create a new project skeleton, the suggested
> command line fails as below.
> It seems there is a typo of some kind in the suggested command line, I am not
> familiar enough with maven 2 to know for sure.
> Graham-Leggetts-Computer:~/src/standard/alchemy/maven minfrin$ mvn
> archetype:create -DgroupId=za.co.standardbank.alchemy
> -DartifactId=alchemy-trader
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not
> exist or no valid version could be found
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 1 second
> [INFO] Finished at: Tue Jun 27 09:43:14 SAST 2006
> [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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