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I have the following in .m2, disabling the default remote repo:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<settings>
<mirrors>
  <mirror>
    <id>my.mirror</id>
    <name>My Mirror</name>
    <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/alwaysfail</url>
    <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
  </mirror>
</mirrors>

Now I added this in my project pom.xml

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>myproject.repo</id>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

But it does not pick up my project specific remote repo and start downloading, what am I doing wrong?

powder366
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  • You seemed to misunderstand the meaning of mirrorOf. Your `settings.xml` configuration mean to redirect any configuration your are making in your pom to redirect to the one you have made into the one you have defined in your mirrorOf configuration. I don't understand why you like to prevent using Maven central ? – khmarbaise Feb 25 '17 at 11:50
  • I just disabled the one in .m2 to test how I can configure a project specific repo i.e. the one in pom.xml (which in my test case is the Maven central). We can't access the Internet and we have our own company internal repository. I like to set up different project specific internal repos. – powder366 Feb 25 '17 at 12:02
  • Configure only the internal repository manager in settings.xml which means imply use the url of the internal repository in the url and don't put repositories into pom files... – khmarbaise Feb 25 '17 at 16:00

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setting.xml allows you to override definitions in pom.xml, not the other way round. If you want to not use the overriding in settings.xml in a particular build, you could prepare another settings file and call it explicitly:

$ mvn install -s /path/to/no-repo-override.xml
Mureinik
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  • If I remove my settings.xml and define it only in my pom.xml described above and then change the url to a wrong link it still downloads! I only want my pom.xml to be the url to define where I get my dependencies. How can I do that? So if the pom.xml url is wrong it should fail. – powder366 Feb 25 '17 at 12:15