Change location of local maven repository in gradle

Question

publishToMavenLocal always publishes to either ~/.m2 or the path set for <LocalRepository> tag in ~/.m2/settings.xml. However when I set the system property maven.repo.local it is ignored. Is there a way to override the location of the local maven repository when publishing using gradle publishToMavenLocal, other than settings.xml (I am looking for either project property or system property or environment variable).

Here is what I tried gradle -Dmaven.repo.local=/home/skgupta/myrepo build pTML

Please help

Answer 1

Your -Dmaven.repo.local approach is working on my Gradle v4.8.1, here is the rundown:

gradle --stop
export M2_HOME=/tmp/other_em_two
export M2_REPO=$M2_HOME/repository
mkdir -p $M2_REPO
tree $M2_REPO
gradle -Dmaven.repo.local=$M2_REPO pTML
tree $M2_REPO

Will show published files.