From the same directory I tried to deploy spark-assembly-1.6.2.2.5.0.0-1245-hadoop2.7.3.2.5.0.0-1245.jar and tools.jar (the later being a dependency of the first) Despite launching the same commands:
mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=./spark-assembly-1.6.2.2.5.0.0-1245-hadoop2.7.3.2.5.0.0-1245.jar -DgroupId="spark.yarn.jar" -DartifactId="spark-assembly-1.6.2.2.5.0.0-1245-hadoop2.7.3.2.5.0.0" -Dversion="1245-SNAPSHOT" -Dpackaging="jar" -DrepositoryId="stmms-id" -Durl="http://nexus.some.dns.com:8090/repository/maven-snapshots"
mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=./tools.jar -DgroupId="jdk.tools" -DartifactId="jdk.tools" -Dversion="1.7.0_07" -Dpackaging="jar" -DrepositoryId="stmms-id" -Durl="http://nexus.some.dns.com:8090/repository/maven-snapshots"
the first is successfull but the second fails: I also tried maven-deploy-plugin but with no much success.
Your repository maven-snapshots
is a SNAPSHOT repository. You can only deploy SNAPSHOT versions to it.
So -Dversion="1245-SNAPSHOT"
is ok, but -Dversion="1.7.0_07"
is not.