When maven says “resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of MyRepo has elapsed”, where is that interval specified?

With maven, I occasionally hit an artifact that comes from some 3rd-party repo that I haven’t built or included in my repository yet.

I’ll get an error message from the maven client saying that an artifact can’t be found:

Failure to find org.jfrog.maven.annomojo:maven-plugin-anno:jar:1.4.0
in http://myrepo:80/artifactory/repo was cached in the local
repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update
interval of MyRepo has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]

Now, I understand what this means, and can simply re-run my command with -U, and things usually work fine from there on out.

However, I find this error message to be extremely unintuitive and am trying to spare my co-workers some headaches.

I am trying to figure out if there is some place that I can modify this update interval setting.

  1. Is the update interval that is mentioned in this error message a client-side or server-side setting?
  2. If client-side, how do I configure it?
  3. If server-side, does anyone know how/if Nexus/Artifactory expose these settings?

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I used to solve this issue by deleting the corresponding failed to download artifact directory in my local repo. Next time I run the maven command the artifact download is triggered again. Therefore I’d say it’s a client side setting.

Nexus side (server repo side), this issue is solved configuring a scheduled task.
Client side, this is done using -U, as you already pointed out.

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