How to use gradle zip in local system without downloading when using gradle-wrapper

From gradle-wrapper documentation, I found in section 61.1. Configuration

If you don’t want any download to happen when your project is build
via gradlew, simply add the Gradle distribution zip to your version
control at the location specified by your wrapper configuration. A
relative URL is supported – you can specify a distribution file
relative to the location of gradle-wrapper.properties file.

So, I changed distributionUrl property in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=gradle-1.11-bin.zip

Then, I made a copy of gradle-1.11-bin.zip in gradle/wrapper/.

Then, ./gradlew build downloaded local copy of zip and built the project.


Here’s a real-world example:

mkdir -p $HOME/dev
cd $HOME/dev
git clone https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort
cd ort/gradle/wrapper
wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
sed -i 's/distributionUrl=.*/distributionUrl=gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip/' gradle-wrapper.properties 
cd ../..
./gradlew installDist

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