[Building Sakai] Nexus as a maven proxy

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Wed Apr 8 07:30:37 PDT 2009


Thanks! Let me go over my config first and see if I can get some cases
that i can reliably reproduce

D

Glauber Cabral wrote:
> David, I don't have this kind of problem here. If you need, tell me
> the problematic package that I can test here.
>
> Cheers,
> Glauber
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:09 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Guys
>>
>> Glad to know I'm not the only one playing in this space. The problem I have
>> is that Nexus seems to expect that your repo contains either release or
>> snapshot artefacts, and gives not found errors for one or the other as the
>> Sakai repo contains both - maybe I need to go over my configuration again!
>>
>> D
>>
>> Matthew Buckett wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:06 PM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've been playing around with Nexus (http://nexus.sonatype.org/) to use
>> as a mirror for maven repos - and down the line as a local release
>> repository. Early indications are that it significantly speeds up our
>> build process (the pom checks are performed at local network speed).
>>
>>
>> We're running archiva here for both mirroring and local artifact
>> deployments.
>>
>> http://archiva.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
>>
>> which speeds up our builds as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has any else looked at Nexus? If you have have you been able to use it
>> mirror the Sakai repo? I can't seem to get a configuration that mirrors
>> both release and snapshot artefacts.
>>
>>
>> I keep hearing good things about it and if I was looking to pick a
>> maven repository again it's the one I'd look at.
>>
>> I wish I had segmented our repo more, so that local deployment were
>> seperate from mirrored artifacts.
>>
>> Is this a configuration problem with maven or nexus?
>>
>>
>>
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