How do you stop maven from trying to access http://repo.maven.apache.org?

Question

The development machine cannot access the internet, and take about 60s to timeout. When I try to build, I see

Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/mave         


        

Answer 1

Try setting the following in the reporting/plugins block

    
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-project-info-reports-plugin
        2.9
        
            false