How to stop maven from downloading some jar files from repositorty

Question

I am modifying the hadoop source code but when I do a compile in maven it downloads from the maven repository, which is causing problems as my changes are not always be used.

How can I get maven to not download some files from the repository at all, and just use what is in the local classpath?

I am using maven 3.0.4

Answer 1

Update these properties inside of your POM file to disable updates of your dependencies.

• enabled: true or false for whether this repository is enabled for the respective type (releases or snapshots).

• updatePolicy: This element specifies how often updates should attempt to occur. Maven will compare the local POM's timestamp (stored in a repository's maven-metadata file) to the remote. The choices are: always, daily (default), interval:X (where X is an integer in minutes) or never.

POM Reference - MAVEN Site

Answer 2

The best way is to give to "hadoop source code" a different SNAPSHOT version or a different artifactId and refer to it.

However, I think it is a stupid answer.

• You can set local settings to offline=true. http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.0.3/maven-settings/settings.html;

• or use a repository manager (sucha as Nexus) http://maven.apache.org/repository-management.html and deploy to Repository