Reading a maven settings.xml when building with gradle?

Question

I have a maven settings.xml located in:

 /home/u123/.m2/settings.xml

where I specify a remote maven repository:

Answer 1

I used maven-publish, maven-publish-auth plugins to accomplish this without parsing the settings by hand

How can Gradle Use Repository Settings From Maven's Settings.xml to publish artifacts

Hope it is of use.

Peter