Is there such a thing as a local remote Maven repository? - maven

Question

I have a build box on which is installed:
Maven
Bamboo
Archiva
I have configured Bamboo to grab my Maven project from a remote Git source and then build it with the goals 'clean install'.
I have configured Archiva with two repos:
mirror - a mirror of central
dev - repo for my artifacts
I have made the following changes to Maven settings.xml:
# Define local repo - this is the same location as i have set up for the Archiva 'dev' repo.
<localRepository>/opt/maven-repo/dev</localRepository>
# Define the Archiva mirror i set up
<mirror>
<id>mirror</id>
<url>http://localhost:8080/repository/mirror/</url>
<mirrorOf>external:*</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
When I execute the build Maven grabs everything external via the mirror and then adds the built artifact to dev, along with the other jars it grabbed from mirror. So i now have some duplicate jars...
\repo\mirror\junit\junit
\repo\mirror\classworlds\classworlds
\repo\dev\junit\junit
\repo\dev\classworlds\classworlds
\repo\dev\me\myartifact
My question is, is the correct approach? Really I want to keep 'dev' with just my artifacts and mirror with everything from central - i don't want duplicates.
Should I be using the LocalRepository config in settings.xml or should I be using 'mvn deploy' to put the artifact in my Archiva repository by a different method?
Could someone clarify the different use cases for a local and remote repository?
Finally, how should I be defining my POM? Currently, I have just defined
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>dev</id>
<url>file:///repo/dev</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
Should i be adding in my mirror?

Answer 1

To put artifacts in your repository manager you should use the default which is maven-deploy-plugin which can be controlled by distributionManagement. The target where to put those things is controlled by defining the distributionManagement.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
...
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>releases</id>
<name>Release</name>
<url>http://urlArchiva/releases/</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>snapshots</id>
<name>Snapshots</name>
<url>http://urlArchiva/snapshots/</url>
</snapshotRepository>
...
</distributionManagement>
...
</project>
The repositories which are used to consume artifacts from is defined in the settings.xml
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<!--This sends everything else to /public -->
<id>nexus</id>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
<url>http://serverUrlArchiva/public/</url>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>nexus</id>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<!--make the profile active all the time -->
<activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>
On Bamboo you should be able to control which settings.xml is used to have an local repository per build which makes build independent from each other.