Mirror artifact from maven central

[ctron]

Instead of manually uploading an artifact, I would like to reference an artifact from maven central (or another repository) and let package drone fetch and analyze it.

There should be a way to update the artifact later on automatically.

[ctron]

Just to follow up with this topic. It already is possible to load/import artifacts from maven central. However this is a manual step and has to be re-performed if an updated version should be pulled from a maven repository.

[jellenelis]

Is it possible with package drone to mirror other Maven repositories yet? We would like to not only use Package Drone to deploy own artifacts, but also to act as an internal mirror to e.g. Maven Central, jcenter, etc. This issue seems to be exactly what we are looking for.

[ctron]

You can already do that to some degree.

You can import artifacts directly from maven. Even with dependency resolution. What you cannot do is to automatically proxy and cache artifacts from Maven central.

[jellenelis]

Is it on the roadmap of package drone to be able to act as an automatic proxy?