How to set up maven 3 local plugin repository

Question

I need to have a completely offline maven repository due to some limitations. According to http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException , only

Answer 1

Finally, I found the problem, there's a file called _maven.repositories in the plugin directory, after I delete the file, all works well!

More details, see the following links:

• http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven-3-maven-repositories-and-lastUpdated-td4927537.html

• http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5181

Answer 2

Since Maven 3.1-alpha-1, the command line option -llr/--legacy-local-repository or the system property -Dmaven.legacyLocalRepo=true should help

See here for a general answer on working offline with maven

Answer 3

This problem annoyed me so much that I patched the war plugin to have a disableOverlaying parameter. You may find it here - forked from the original : https://github.com/crowdcode-de/maven-war-plugin