Disable fetching of p2 repository indexes

eclipse, java, maven, tycho

Solution

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

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

Problem

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?

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