Is it possible to configure private maven repos so that lein new ... will search them when resolving template names? I’ve tried :repositories and :plugin-repositories in my :user profile but it isn’t working for me and the output only mentions searching maven central and clojars. There’s a chance I’ve misconfigured artifactory so I’m wondering if anyone has had success with this.

Can you share your (redacted) config?

Actually, I think I've run into this in the past, and we had to publish our lein templates to Clojars

Following the code path through leiningen.new it all seems like it should work

I suspect the problem is in leiningen.new/fake-project

It looks like it would use your :plugin-repositories from :user

{:user
 {:dependencies [[org.clojure/tools.namespace "0.2.10"]
                 [pjstadig/humane-test-output "0.7.0"]]
  :injections [(require 'pjstadig.humane-test-output)
               (pjstadig.humane-test-output/activate!)]
  :plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.9.0-SNAPSHOT"]]
  :plugin-repositories
  [["snapshots" {:url ""}]
   ["releases" {:url ""
                :sign-releases false}]]}}

I have the Artifactory docker image running on a local kubernetes cluster (minikube)

Just saw https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/1510

which seems to be fixed

Yeah, I saw that also. This 2015 thread implies its :plugin-repositories as well, but I couldn’t get it working: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/FXohCZjriN0

Here’s the output with repos configured in :plugin-repositories:

bash-3.2$ lein new my-template foo
lein new my-template foo
(:repositories detected in user-level profiles! [:user] 
See 
Failed to resolve version for my-template:lein-template:jar:RELEASE: Could not find metadata my-template:lein-template/maven-metadata.xml in local (/Users/jed/.m2/repository)
This could be due to a typo in :dependencies or network issues.
If you are behind a proxy, try setting the 'http_proxy' environment variable.
Could not find template my-template on the classpath.

weird

clojure/lein newbie here: is there an easy way to find the latest version of an dependency via lein search other than manually paging through all search results?

@martyglaubitz not exactly the answer to your original question, but there is https://github.com/xsc/lein-ancient plugin which will report the outdated dependencies. I also often use cljr-add-project-dependency in Spacemacs which will automatically list the most recent versions at the top

@jumar yeah usually i rely on my IDE (i use IntelliJ + Cursive) to show me whats available, but sometimes i don't have more than leiningen itself to search..