[maven] Mirroring maven repositories for oVirt

[Yair Zaslavsky]

On 11/20/2011 04:12 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
> Since we all know that compiling oVirt on fedora for the first time downloads a very large amount of jars... 
> We need to think about mirroring the maven repositories we're using.
> 
> There are a few advantages for that:
>  * closer and faster servers
>  * better control over the servers, meaning if the original repos are down, ours can still be online.
>  * there is a chance we can be temporarily blocked if too many d/l are bring done. (or if some user d/l the entire repo using wget for e.g.)
> 
> here is info about mirroring from the maven site:
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-mirror-settings.html
> 
> Eyal Edri.
+1 - Sounds like a good idea.

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