diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
index 916a2c6047a..ad68c17ef7c 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import org.gradle.api.artifacts.Dependency
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.ModuleDependency
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.ProjectDependency
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.RepositoryHandler
+import org.gradle.api.artifacts.repositories.ExclusiveContentRepository
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.repositories.IvyArtifactRepository
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.repositories.IvyPatternRepositoryLayout
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.repositories.MavenArtifactRepository
@@ -350,10 +351,16 @@ class BuildPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
             // extract the revision number from the version with a regex matcher
             List<String> matches = (luceneVersion =~ /\w+-snapshot-([a-z0-9]+)/).getAt(0) as List<String>
             String revision = matches.get(1)
-            repos.maven { MavenArtifactRepository repo ->
+            MavenArtifactRepository luceneRepo = repos.maven { MavenArtifactRepository repo ->
                 repo.name = 'lucene-snapshots'
                 repo.url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.elasticsearch.org/lucenesnapshots/${revision}"
             }
+            repos.exclusiveContent { ExclusiveContentRepository exclusiveRepo ->
+                exclusiveRepo.filter {
+                    it.includeVersionByRegex(/org\.apache\.lucene/, '.*', ".*-snapshot-${revision}")
+                }
+                exclusiveRepo.forRepositories(luceneRepo)
+            }
         }
     }