Scenario: I have a pom that is an organizational pom. It's the organization's
super pom. It has a set of default values to be inherited by all projects.

Two problems:

1. Via Job the project won't build at all. Maven can't find the external parent
pom. It seems to completely ignore ~/.m2/settings.xml which configures a
mirrorOf central. It still doesn't work even when the parent pom is installed
locally. This is true of single or multimodule maven projects.

started
Updating https://subversion.../trunk
At revision 7854
no change for https://subversion.../trunk since the previous build
Parsing POMs
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
hudson.util.IOException2: Cannot find parent: org.calgb:CalgbParentPom for
project: org.calgb.util:Util:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:520)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:457)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:280)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.doRun(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:239)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:182)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:579)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:172)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:66)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:62)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot find
parent: org.calgb:CalgbParentPom for project: org.calgb.util:Util:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1161)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:674)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:416)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:192)
at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.readProject(MavenEmbedder.java:269)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:499)
... 8 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: POM
'org.calgb:CalgbParentPom' not found in repository: Unable to download the
artifact from any repository

org.calgb:CalgbParentPom:pom:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:513)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1157)
... 13 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactNotFoundException: Unable
to download the artifact from any repository

org.calgb:CalgbParentPom:pom:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:136)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:63)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:467)
... 14 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.ResourceDoesNotExistException: Unable to
download the artifact from any repository
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.getArtifact(DefaultWagonManager.java:260)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:124)
... 16 more
finished: FAILURE

2. The module itself can build, BUT you have to locally install the
organizational parent pom and either install locally all local dependencies or
configure the local maven repository in the external pom. Again, settings.xml
seems to be completely ignored.

None of these problems exist if I don't reference the external parent pom. And
it happens only within Hudson.