Snaphot repository issue

Question

We have installed Archiva with the two repositories set by default.

Here is my settings.xml:

<server>
   <id>mycompany-release</id>
   <username>admin</username>
   <password>******</password>
</server>
<server>
   <id>mycompany-snapshots</id>
   <username>admin</username>
   <password>******</password> 
</server>

<mirror>
   <id>mycompany-release</id>
   <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/internal/</url>
   <mirrorOf>external:*</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
   <id>mycompany-snapshots</id>
   <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/</url>
   <mirrorOf>apache.snapshots</mirrorOf>
</mirror>

<profile>
    <id>repo</id>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
           <id>mycompany-release</id>
           <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/internal/</url>
           <releases>
                  <enabled>true</enabled>
           </releases>
           <snapshots>
                  <enabled>false</enabled>
           </snapshots>
    </repository>
    <repository>
           <id>mycompany-snapshots</id>
           <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/</url>
           <releases>
                  <enabled>false</enabled>
           </releases>
           <snapshots>
                  <enabled>true</enabled>
           </snapshots>
    </repository>
   </repositories>      
</profile>

<activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>repo</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>

I have a parent project that I use to set the common configuration for all the projects. The version of this parent project is 1-SNAPSHOT. So, in all the other projects, the parent section points to this parent project with version 1-SNAPSHOT (without relative path element). If I deploy my parent project to the archiva repository, it is there. If I try to run any command on another project, as mvn clean, it works since the parent project was installed during deployment. But, if I delete manually the parent project from my local repository and try to run the same command, Maven returns an error saying :

Non resolvable parent POM: Could not find artifact com.mycompany:Parent:pom:1-SNAPSHOT in mycompany-release (http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/internal/) and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM

It seems that the parent project is looked up in the release repository while I expected it's looked up in the snapshot repository.

Thanks for your help

EDIT: Here is one part of the child POM:

<parent>
    <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
    <artifactId>Parent</artifactId>
    <version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>child</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>

If I remove the parent section and run mvn help:effective-pom, I get (only repositories is shown):

<repositories>
    <repository>
      <releases>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>mycompany-release</id>
      <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/internal/</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>mycompany-snapshots</id>
      <url>http://X.X.X.X:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>central</id>
      <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

NOTE: if I replace the parent version by 1 (instead of 1-SNAPSHOT), it works.

Answer 1

I found what was the issue. The problematic line in the settings.xml is:

<mirrorOf>external:*</mirrorOf>

Indeed, it caused Maven to consider the mycompany-release repository as a mirror of mycompany-snapshots repository. But, this repository doesn't mirror snapshots. I replaced this line by:

<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>

Now, the mycompany-release repository mirror only the Maven central repository and not the mycompany-snapshots repository, so it looks up the snapshots artifacts in the mycompany-snapshots repository.

Thanks Andrew for your help! I didn't now there was a possibility to display the full log.