Maven Dependencies Processor doesn't work if local repository is empty

We use the "Maven Dependencies Processor" for automatic dependency resolution and it works fine, as long as all artifacts/pom files are locally available.

If we execute the Maven Dependencies Processor as first task on a bamboo agent which has a completely empty repository it is not able to download the required pom files.

Or is this behavior expected and the dependencies processor should always be executed last?

How to reproduce :

• create a plan with a maven project checkout
• add the maven dependencies processor
• wipe the repository on the agent and run the plan
• it fails
• execute any random maven task BEFORE the processor, e.g. "mvn compile" so that the repository is full
• run the maven dependencies processor again and it works