I\'m afraid I just don\'t know what this error means, besides that there is an error. I was able to build jars before, but this is my first time using the rpm-maven-plugin.
The problem was exactly as the error stated. I went to my respository and opened the POM file at the path above. I realize that somehow the POM file was downloaded while I was not authenticated against one of our internal systems.
So even though a file existed, the pom file only contained an error message.
After deleting the file at the path and restarting the build, the build was successful.