Hello, We are running a CI build of some of our Gradle applications. These builds are run inside Docker containers in an ‘empty’ system. To improve build times, we cache the dependencies of the Gradle home folder (the wrapper and caches directories). Summarized, the build is split up into many mod…

The dependency verification feature of Gradle does something like that internally, when calling --write-verification-metadata. Note, however, that as the documentation explains, it’s an approximation of what dependencies could be downloaded during a build. In particular, if a task uses what we call…

Force resolving (and downloading) all dependencies

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hiddewie (Hidde Wieringa) May 15, 2020, 7:16am 4

Thank you both for the answers. This helped me and the results look promising!

@CedricChampeau It seems that dependency verification is only added in Gradle 6? I could not find that documentation for version 5.

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Force resolving (and downloading) all dependencies

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