Hi Damjan! I suggest you approaching the wiki page[1] first to see how components are released in commons, at least the described method is the one I follow when proposing RCs.
HTH, have a nice day! -Simo [1] http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CreatingReleases http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I promised to start the Sanselan release process early this week, but I've > been having problem after problem: > > 1. The instructions on http://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html say > that you run a variation of "mvn install" to build the release... but this > only generates the .jar files, not the src/bin zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. > > 2. Running "mvn assembly:assembly" fails because my UTF-8 platform locale > causes a multibyte bug in Plexus Archiver when writing a German sounding > filename into the src tar file. I reported this 3 year old bug and > submitted a patch (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-195). How did > you build Sanselan without this patch before? > > 3. Running "mvn assembly:assembly" with a manually patched Plexus Archiver > (and what a mission it was to figure out which of the 5 versions of Plexus > Archiver in my Maven repository is the one used...) does generate those > other files, but doesn't sign them. > > 4. My attempts to manually sign the .jar file, or its md5 or sha1 hash, > with gpg, generate different checksums than those generated by Maven. Thus > I cannot manually sign the zip/tar files. How is signing supposed to work, > what gets signed and how? > > 5. "mvn release" is so badly documented that I am scared to use it. When I > run it with -DdryRun=true, it hangs on [gpg:sign {execution: > sign-artifacts}]. The child process launched by "mvn release:prepare" is > launched without this parameter, and strace shows it stuck in read() on fd > 0 (stdin). Typing the passphrase and pressing enter does nothing. > Redirecting stdin from a file with the passphrase also does nothing. > Attempts to use -Dgpg.passphrase=... also do nothing, whether passed to > directly "mvn" or quoted inside the -Darguments or both, and "ps fax" shows > that it isn't passed to the child process. > > Please help? > > Thank you > Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
