Reading a maven settings.xml when building with gradle?

Question

I have a maven settings.xml located in:

 /home/u123/.m2/settings.xml

where I specify a remote maven repository:

Answer 1

Please use mavenLocal() in your repositories section of build.gradle file. This should read ~/.m2/settings.xml file in your home directory.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
}