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> Is this a known issue, is anyone in a situation where they can test
> this with an empty Maven cache? Or provide me with a download link, I
> haven't been able to locate that version using Google or Jarvana.
I build with an empty Maven cache all the time, and it works for me. I'm not a maven expert, but I know what the maven experts ask. :) Can you tell us what version of maven you're using and what you have in your settings file. If it helps, I have this:
hostname% mvn --version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 15:16:01-0400)
[etc.]
I have no settings.xml file and an empty repo:
hostname% find ~/.m2
/Users/bobby/.m2
/Users/bobby/.m2/repository
...and it just built ok for me. Did you remember the "-Prelease-phase1" part?
Cheers,
Bobby