Ability to read from ~/.m2 but save into the given thin.root for faster builds

I need something that I would expect to be a very common use case: I want to output all the dependencies of my thin jar into a directory without downloading them all anew when they already are in my local maven repository. Currently this seems impossible (without running Nexus or something similar).

What I do on my build server is:

gradle build # fetches build and runtime dependencies, produces a thin jar
java -Dthin.root=./libs-root -jar myapp-thin.jar
package-into-docker ./libs-root myapp-thin.jar

Am I missing something? Thank you!!!

[dsyer]

You definitely should try 1.0.25 at least. And snapshots if that doesn’t work.

[holyjak]

Hi! I am sorry, I discovered a much simpler solution to my problem, simply using a Gradle task to copy all libs into a dir, adding the spring-boot-loader.jar and the original app-only jar and using the standard org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher. I need no fancy download-on-first-use functionality.