Are there any workarounds for this issue? I'm running into the same thing, with a dll dependency. And I think we're going to have zip and tar dependencies we'll run into this with too.

Found a workaround from Hans, here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3250668/in-gradle-how-do-ignore-the-cache-for-a-local-ivy-repository

This worked for me:

repositories {
  def cacheManager = new DefaultRepositoryCacheManager()
  cacheManager.name = 'dllArtifactCache'
  cacheManager.artifactPattern = "[organisation]/[module](/[branch])/[type]s/[revision]/[artifact](.[ext])"
  cacheManager.setLockStrategy(new NoLockStrategy())
  def resolver = new org.apache.ivy.plugins.resolver.URLResolver()
  resolver.setRepositoryCacheManager(cacheManager)
  addFirst(resolver) {
    name = 'dllrepo'
    m2compatible = true
    addArtifactPattern "http://10.10.10.1/artifactory/libs-development/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact].[ext]"
    descriptor = 'optional'
    checkmodified = false
  }
}

Thanks for the info! I'll check it.

While this was working for me, I decided to go a different direction. I don't really care how the file is named in ivy's cache. I only care about their name when I copy them into my distribution archives. So I'm just renaming them during the copy. Then I don't need to modify the structure of my repository for it. And it's way fewer lines in my build file.

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