http://gradle.markmail.org/thread/btcf75cxyngwly27

From the mail thread:

I'm trying to add a dependency to the cglib-nodep-2.1.jar

I have mavenCentral() defined as a repository and added dependencies

to build.gradle for a project.

I get the following error for this:

Download http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/cglib/cglib-nodep/2.1/cglib-nodep-2.1.pom :::: WARNINGS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES ::

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:: cglib#cglib-nodep;2.1: java.text.ParseException: inconsistent module descriptor file found in 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/cglib/cglib-nodep/2.1/cglib-nodep-2.1.pom': bad revision: expected='2.1' found='2.1-nodep';

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This makes sense because the pom file at http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/cglib/cglib-nodep/2.1/cglib-nodep-2.1.pom has the wrong version value (2.1-nodep instead of 2.1).

I added @jar to the dependency, expecting to just get the jar regardless of the error in the pom file but I still get the same message. Same results when adding the dependency compile group: 'cglib', name: 'cglib-nodep', version: '2.1', ext: 'jar'

Adam Murdoch supplied a workaround:
You can use a client module definition to override the contents of the pom:
dependencies

Adding @jar should have prevented the attempt to retrieve and parse the pom.xml file.

We delegate this to ivy, and ivy seems to want to parse the pom.xml even though it doesn't want to.