Public SBT Plugin Repo seems to be broken

Question

Currently all our builds are failing because that are not able to resolve plugins from the public SBT Plugin Repo. We get the following error:

[warn] Note: Some unresolved dependencies have extra attributes. Check that these dependencies exist with the requested attributes. [warn] com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin:2.4.0 (scalaVersion=2.10, sbtVersion=0.13) [warn] com.github.gseitz:sbt-release:1.0.0 (scalaVersion=2.10, sbtVersion=0.13)

The SBT docs list the predefined repos. The link for the sbt plugins results in a 404. I think some kind of redirect mechanism is broken.

I know that the actual artifacts are hosted on bintray. Therefore i tried to point my build directly to this repo, but this does seem to help. I added following to my project/plugins.sbt:

resolvers += Resolver.url(
  "fix-sbt-plugin-releases",
   url("http://dl.bintray.com/sbt/sbt-plugin-releases"))(
   Resolver.ivyStylePatterns)

Does anyone know a fix how to circumvent this?

Answer 1

Will not help you right now, but you might want to consider it for the future:

You could use something like Artifactory to mirror all of your dependencies in your local network.

You can than configure Artifactory as a proxy and would only be disappointed when you try to download a new dependency during down time (which should be pretty unlikely).

Makes dependency resolving faster, too.