Hi all,
In our development environment we use an Eclipse target definition to define what 3rd party libraries we depend on. Using Tycho's target-platform-configuration we have successfully been able to get our Tycho builds use that target definition.
As an additional measure we would like to set up mirrors for some of the p2 repositories referenced in our target definition. Based on the documentation I found (see
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Target_Platform/Authentication_and_Mirrors) I thought I should be able to define a mirror for a repository referenced in the target definition using the repository's URL as its ID. So e.g. add the following to ~/.m2/settings.xml:
<mirror>
<id>kepler</id>
<url>file:///tmp/mirrors/kepler</url>
</mirror>
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work (the mirror is just ignored). I suppose this might work if I also define the repository in the pom.xml using some ID, but I would like to avoid this kind of redundancy if possible.
Does anyone have an idea why this isn't working? I am using Tycho 0.21 and Maven 3.2.3.
Also, maybe someone has other ways of setting up mirrors or other tricks to speed up Maven builds. What I like about the mirroring approach above is that it doesn't require any additional server or software to be installed and it doesn't require me to change the URLs of the p2 official repositories to some custom clone (e.g. Nexus proxy or whatever), which means that the target definition is always correct and resolvable.
Regards,
Knut Wannheden
