Spring Unable to build with --offline [SPR-10681]

Phil Webb opened SPR-10681 and commented

Building buildSrc repeatedly triggers HEAD requests for libraries existing on disk.

$ ./gradlew :spring-orm:test

================================================ Finished building buildSrc
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Cached resource is up-to-date (lastModified: Sun May 05 20:56:48 CEST 2013). [HTTP: http://repo.springsource.org/plugins-release/org/springframework/build/gradle/propdeps-plugin/0.0.3/propdeps-plugin-0.0.3.pom]
Cached resource is up-to-date (lastModified: Sun May 05 20:56:50 CEST 2013). [HTTP: http://repo.springsource.org/plugins-release/org/springframework/build/gradle/docbook-reference-plugin/0.2.6/docbook-reference-plugin-0.2.6.pom]
…

Since items are cached it should be possible to work offline:

$ gw :spring-orm:test --offline

================================================ Finished building buildSrc
…

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':classpath'.
Could not resolve group:org.springframework.build.gradle, module:propdeps-plugin, version:0.0.3.
 Required by:
     :spring:4.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
No cached version available for offline mode
Could not resolve group:org.springframework.build.gradle, module:docbook-reference-plugin, version:0.2.6.
 Required by:
     :spring:4.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
No cached version available for offline mode

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

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Comment From: bclozel

I can no longer reproduce this issue. In the meantime, the Gradle build has been entirely revisited.