Disable fetching of p2 repository indexes

Question

We're currently setting up maven and tycho to build eclipse plugins. Following the examples and documentations, we added some repositories with layout p2 like this:

<repository>
  <id>eclipse-indigo</id>
  <layout>p2</layout>
  <url>http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo</url>
</repository>

Now, everytime we execute the pom, maven is "fetching" p2 indexes which takes quite a while. We see a lot of lines like

[INFO] Fetching p2.index (0B of 96B at 0B/s) from http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/

and it take some significant time until it actually starts the build or clean or whatever.

Is there a way to disable the fetching, at least temporarily?

Answer 1

You can use maven offline mode (commandline switch -o)

For details see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=357357