My company's policy frowns upon artifacts downloaded automatically (they have to be approved), so in order to use Maven I need to disable access to Maven's central repository.

In other words, I don't want Maven to attempt any downloads from central.

I know how to configure a local repository (networked or not), my idea is using a "blessed" machine to update the local repository.

PS: I could block requests at the proxy/network level, but I'm asking about how to do it with Maven's configuration.

UPDATE I finally figured out how to do it. In maven's home, in the conf directory is a global settings.xml. You can either set a mirror to central that points to some internal server or just override it's definition.

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