Working offline with SBT and SNAPSHOT dependencies

Question

I have never been able to work offline with SBT on any of my projects. Now I\'m in the middle of a move and my wardrobe-server hosting nexus is offline.

So running s

Answer 1

This seems like a terrible hack, but you can specify your ivy cache as an ivy repository, so that once your dependencies are downloaded, they can be resolved from the cache.

For example, your ~/.sbt/repositories could look like this:

[repositories]
  local
  maven-central
  cache: file://${user.home}/.ivy2/cache, [organisation]/[module]/ivy-[revision].xml, [organisation]/[module]/[type]s/[module]-[revision].[type]

Note: I had to set the ivy and artifact patterns explicitly. Add the local cache below any other repos so they get tried first.