[maven-publish plugin] No repositories are defined error only when setting custom resolution strategy

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I have a multi-project repository. The project works fine currently, and works well when I run a command like ./gradlew clean publishToMavenLocal from the root directory.

Now, I want to customise the dependency resolution for all the projects in the repository. So in the root project’s build.gradle file, I do:

subprojects {
  configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
      if (details.requested.name == 'some-name') {
        details.useVersion 0.0.2
      }
    }
  }
}

But when I try to run the command ./gradlew clean publishToMavenLocal from the root directory again, I get an error:

 Cannot resolve external dependency <some-dependency>
      because no repositories are defined.

Why does this error only show up when I am trying to customise the resolution strategy? What am I missing? I read a couple of StackOverflow answers and tried to insert repositories { xxx } in all sub projects but the same error still occurred.