Eclipse Updating Indexes

by **Jaedayr** » 05 Sep 2011, 19:33

Every time I start Eclipse there is a four to five minute task that executes that says it is updating indexes. It appears to have something to do with Maeven, pointing to a website. What is it doing and is it necessary to get an update from a Maeven website every time I start Eclipse?

by **Jaedayr** » 30 Sep 2011, 19:19

I am hoping someone can shed some light on this and let me know if I can bypass it or not.

This is the task in the Eclipse progress area.

Code: Select all: Updating index central|http://repo1.maven.org/maven2: Fetching http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/.index/nexus-maven-repository-index.gz (28%)

by **Max mtg** » 30 Sep 2011, 21:05

maybe "mvn scm:update" would help, but I am not sure.

by **jendave** » 30 Sep 2011, 21:09

In your Eclipse preferences, make sure to select "Maven - Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories"

by **Jaedayr** » 30 Sep 2011, 21:37

jendave wrote:In your Eclipse preferences, make sure to select "Maven - Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories"

Thank you! This option was already checked, but there was another option further down in the list to "Download repository index updates on startup" I have unchecked that option.

by **jendave** » 30 Sep 2011, 22:20

I did not even notice that one :-)

. Yes that would explain the strange behavior.