I think I am not quite there yet and I am sure it is my lack of maven expertise.
I modified org.eclipse.ptp\pom.xml and changed the photran-site property to point to my local repository. Then, I run maven on org.eclipse.ptp.master\pom.xml (different pom.xml!) with goal "clean verify." The built products do not use Photran from my local repository. Then, I went in and changed photran-site to something random and it appears that it's not using that property at all. I guess the two poms are not referencing each other as I suspected?
I am able to run maven on org.eclipse.photran\pom.xml and produce the Photran repository.
If I attempt to run maven on org.eclipse.ptp\pom.xml (the one I modified), I receive the following error. I receive this error even without my modifications using the latest pom.xml from git:
[ERROR] Internal error: org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.OsgiManifestParserException: Exception parsing OSGi MANIFEST C:\Users\Rocky\git\org.eclipse.ptp\rdt\org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran.ui\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF: Manifest file not found -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.InternalErrorException: Internal error: org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.OsgiManifestParserException: Exception parsing OSGi MANIFEST C:\Users\Rocky\git\org.eclipse.ptp\rdt\org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran.ui\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF: Manifest file not found
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:167)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:584)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:213)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:157)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.OsgiManifestParserException: Exception parsing OSGi MANIFEST C:\Users\Rocky\git\org.eclipse.ptp\rdt\org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran.ui\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF: Manifest file not found
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.DefaultBundleReader.loadManifestFromDirectory(DefaultBundleReader.java:94)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.DefaultBundleReader.doLoadManifest(DefaultBundleReader.java:58)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.DefaultBundleReader.loadManifest(DefaultBundleReader.java:49)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.OsgiBundleProject.readArtifactKey(OsgiBundleProject.java:140)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.osgitools.OsgiBundleProject.setupProject(OsgiBundleProject.java:135)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.resolver.DefaultTychoResolver.setupProject(DefaultTychoResolver.java:74)
at org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.TychoMavenLifecycleParticipant.afterProjectsRead(TychoMavenLifecycleParticipant.java:72)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:317)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:155)
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